however, there are many types of depression. What most mood disorders have in common are major depressive episodes. This is also true of bipolar disorder, another type of mood disorder.
This observation and the finding by Montgomery et al., (1989) of short intermittent depressive episodes in recurrent suicidal attempters led to the definition of a new subtype of depression: the Recurrent Brief Depression (RBD).Our group focused on the validation of subthreshold depressive diagnoses...