In this study 78 drug free outpatients (age: 44.74 +/- 11.9, F/M: 2.4) were selected according to DSM-IV criteria and the score obtained on the Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). They were also evaluated by applying the Hamilton...
lasting at least two years. That’s a long time to feel down. People with PDD might see the sunshine every once in a while. They can emerge from their depression for up to two months at a time during the course of their disorder and still meet the criteria fordysthymia. But for at ...
disorder is "a chronic disturbance of mood involving either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, usual activities and pastimes, and associated symptoms, but not of sufficient severity and duration to meet the criteria for a major depressive episode" (pp. 220–...
Patients fulfilled DSM-IV-TR criteria for DD and were excluded if they were currently experiencing a major depressive episode. Patients with comorbid Axis I disorders, other than anxiety disorders, were excluded from the study. Patients with prior medication treatment, a prior major depressive ...
Twenty-one adult subjects meeting DSM-IV criteria for DD were enrolled in this 8-week open-label study. Bupropion SR was initiated at 150 mg/day and was increased to a maximum of 200 mg, twice daily. Response was defined as a 50% or greater decrease in score on the Hamilton Rating ...
The small number of discrepancies in diagnoses of the depressive disorders, dysthymic disorder and substance dependence disorder are a reflection of minor but real differences in the diagnostic criteria. Discrepancies in the diagnosis of substance harmful use/abuse disorder are explained by different ...
The term "dysthymia" was first used in order to bring a clearer understanding of depressive disorders that did not meet the criteria for major depression, were more chronic and less severe, and implied a chronic, low‐grade ... 展开
DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders GP: General practitioner IBIs: Internet based Interventions iCBT: Internet based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy IDS-C: Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology – clinician rated IDS-SR: Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology – self-rating ...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate therapeutic effects and tolerability of fluvoxamine (150-200 mg daily) in 21 dysthymic adolescents. SUBJECTS: Twenty-one adolescents, attending psychiatric clinics, who met DSM-III-R criteria for dysthymia, without significant co-morbidity were the ...
However, 95% of those cases identified as meeting diagnostic criteria for DPD also met criteria for Dysthymia. Despite the ability to distinguish statistically DPD traits from Dysthymia symptoms, there was a high degree of comorbidity, compromising the clinical utility of DPD. The results do suggest...