To maintain consistency the ICD-10 used the same criteria, with only minor alterations, but using the DSM diagnostic threshold to mark a mild depressive episode, adding higher threshold categories for moderate and severe episodes. The ancient idea of melancholia still survives in the notion of a ...
Patients can be either first-episode or recurrent cases, and they should not have received antidepressant treatment or undergone Modified Electroconvulsive Therapy (MECT) or other physical therapies within the 2 weeks prior to inclusion. (4) Of Han ethnicity, both genders are acceptable, aged ...