Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most well-known of the seven depressive disorders in the DSM-5. To be diagnosed with clinical depression, you must suffer from a depressed mood and/or a loss of interest or pleasure (anhedonia) for at least two weeks, most of the day, nearly every...
Depression is a mood disorder involving feelings of sadness or hopelessness, which can have a negative impact on someone’s quality of life. Major depressive disorder is a more severe version of depression; the symptoms are usually the same, but are usually more persistent and impactful on someon...
4 Depression can be accompanied by recurrent seizures, which may occur even during remission or persist for longer than the disease itself.5 Pharmacological therapies for MDD can effectively control symptoms; thus, patients may experience recurrence within a short time after discontinuing medication.6 ...
The DSM also contains several other depression-related disorders with various causes, symptoms and treatments. These include seasonal affective disorder, postpartum depression, and persistent depressive disorder. These other mental health conditions have common symptoms and a few differences. First, we’ll...
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Finally,dysthymia,now known as persistent depressive disorder,is sometimes used to describe milder symptoms of depression that happen over longer periods of time,specifically,two or more years with to or more of the following symptoms:a change in appetite,a change in sleep,fatigue or low energy,...
DSM-5Primary care sampleStructural equation modelingMediationConfirmatory factor analysesExisting literature indicates significant comorbidity between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression. We examined whether PTSD's dysphoria and mood/cognitions factors, conceptualized by the empirically ...
symptoms rather than a unified disease entity with a consistentpathophysiologyand predictable response to treatment. Major depressive episodes can occur in a variety of different clinical contexts including depression due to a general medical condition or substance use, major depressive disorder (either ...
The final sample of 1164 patients with major depressive disorder (DSM-VI) (629 women and 535 men) was recruited in outpatient Mental Health Services in Spain. Assessments were performed using the Hamilton (HAM-D17), the Quality of Life for Depression Scale (QLDS) and the Patient Health ...
Diagnoses of MDD and its subtypes were based on DSM-IV symptoms. Genetic overlap of MDD and subtypes with psychiatric (MDD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia) and metabolic (body mass index (BMI), C-reactive protein, triglycerides) traits was evaluated via genomic profile risk scores (GPRS) ...