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JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
Volume 105, Issue 1-3, Pages 1-14Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2007.05.023
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melancholia; diagnosis; classification; major depression; bipolar disorder
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The present DSM criteria for major depression poorly identify samples for treatment selection, prognosis, and assessments of pathophysiology. Melancholia, in contrast, is a disorder with definable clinical signs that can be verified by laboratory tests and treatment response. It identifies more specific populations than the present system and deserves individual identification in. psychiatric classification. Its re-introduction will refine diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection, and studies of pathophysiology of a large segment of the psychiatrically ill. (C) 2007, Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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