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Expert committees of clinicians have chosen diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders with little guidance from measurement theory or modern psychometric methods. The DSM-III-R criteria for major depression (MD) are examined to determine the degree to which latent trait item response models can extr...
clinical depression,depressive disorder,depression- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention involutional depression- a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric unipolar depression- a major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase that occ...
Higher levels of inflammation increase the chance of developing new-onset depression.138,139Although depression can cause inflammation, its cause is still unclear and may be influenced and regulated by immune cells, inflammatory cytokines, and the nervous system. In addition to contributing to the eti...
a history of suicide attempts, mixed affect defined as the co-occurrence of a minimum of three DSM-5 criteria for mixed features was significantly associated to more severe acute depression, supporting the usefulness of this definition for mixed features as significantly relevant to depression ...
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Major depressive disorder, recurrent A. Presence of two or more depressive episodes—to be considered separate episodes, there must be aninterval of at least 2 consecutive monthsin which criteria for major depressive episodes are NOT met.
26,55 It could be that significant dysregulation of the negative HPA axis feedback system is confined to severe (psychotic) depression such as that in inpatients. Indeed, a meta-analysis on cortisol nonsuppression after dexamethasone ingestion showed that psychotic depression was most clearly ...
Background: Information on the distribution of disability associated with major depression (MD) across different groups of patients is of interest to health policy and planning. We examined the associations of severity and type (a single or recurrent episode) of MD with disability in a Dutch gener...
The ANCOVA models controlling for baseline levels of depression also did not yield any significant treatment effects with respect to the HAM-D (F2,152 = 0.61; P = .55) or BDI (F2,152 = 1.01; P = .37). Finally, based on DSM-IV criteria for MDD36 and assuming that patients who ...