How many different ways do patients meet the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder?

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Zimmerman ◽  
William Ellison ◽  
Diane Young ◽  
Iwona Chelminski ◽  
Kristy Dalrymple
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Major Depressive

The Effect of Desipramine upon Central Adrenergic Function in Depressed Patients

1982 ◽  
Vol 141 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana B. Glass ◽  
Stuart A. Checkley ◽  
Eric Shur ◽  
Sheila Dawling
Keyword(s):  
Growth Hormone ◽  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Adaptive Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Uptake Of Noradrenaline ◽  
Drug Free

SummaryEleven drug free patients meeting Research Diagnostic Criteria for Major Depressive Disorder have been treated with desipramine and given a clonidine infusion after 0, 1 and 3 weeks of treatment. The sedative and hypotensive effects of clonidine were significantly inhibited after three weeks of treatment with desipramine: a similar interaction was seen after one week of treatment although this just failed to reach statistical significance. The growth hormone (GH) response to clonidine was initially impaired, but increased significantly after one week of treatment. A significant reduction in the GH response occurred during the second and third weeks of treatment with desipramine. This last finding is interpreted as evidence of adaptive change of α2 adrenoceptors: the other changes can be explained by the known ability of desipramine to block the re-uptake of noradrenaline.

Alternative diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder in patients with chronic pain

Pain ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith G. Wilson ◽  
Samuel F. Mikail ◽  
Joyce L. DʼEon ◽  
Joanne E. Minns
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Major Depressive

Questionable Agreement: The Experience of Depression and DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder Criteria

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-643
Author(s):  
Abraham M Nussbaum
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Classic Essay ◽  
Depressive Episodes

Abstract Immediately before the release of DSM-5, a group of psychiatric thought leaders published the results of field tests of DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. They characterized the interrater reliability for diagnosing major depressive disorder by two trained mental health practitioners as of “questionable agreement.” These field tests confirmed an open secret among psychiatrists that our current diagnostic criteria for diagnosing major depressive disorder are unreliable and neglect essential experiences of persons in depressive episodes. Alternative diagnostic criteria exist, but psychiatrists rarely encounter them, forestalling the discipline’s epistemological crisis. In Alsadair MacIntyre’s classic essay, such crises occur in science when a person encounters a rival schemata that is incompatible with their current schemata and subsequently constructs a narrative that allows them to reconstruct their own tradition. In search of rival schemata that are in conversation with their own tradition, psychiatric practitioners can utilize alternative diagnostic criteria like the Cultural Formulation Interview, embrace an epistemologically humble psychiatry, and attend to the narrative experience of a person experiencing a depressive episode.

The Symptomatology of Puerperal Illnesses

1981 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Dean ◽  
R. E. Kendell
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Manic Disorder ◽  
And Control

SummaryWomen who had a psychiatric illness requiring hospital admission within 90 days of delivery were compared with a control group matched for age, Research Diagnostic Criteria diagnosis and year of admission. Those with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder differed significantly from non-puerperal controls in being more deluded or hallucinated, more labile and more disorientated. There was no difference between puerperal and control cases of major depressive or manic disorder with respect to treatment received, or responded to, or length of stay in hospital.

How many different symptom combinations fulfil the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder? Results from the CRESCEND study

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seon-Cheol Park ◽  
Jae-Min Kim ◽  
Tae-Youn Jun ◽  
Min-Soo Lee ◽  
Jung-Bum Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Major Depressive

scholarly journals Major depressive disorder: reification and (maybe) rheostasis

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 473-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Patten
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Clinical Syndromes ◽  
Prediction Of Prognosis ◽  
Major Depressive Episodes ◽  
Depressive Episodes ◽  
Selection Of

The heterogeneity of clinical syndromes subsumed by diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) is regarded by some as a reason to abandon or modify the criteria. However, heterogeneity may be unavoidable because of the biopsychosocial complexity of depression. MDD may be characterised by complexities that cannot be distilled down to any brief set of diagnostic criteria. Psychiatrists and psychiatric epidemiologists may need to revise their expectations of this diagnosis in order to avoid over-estimating its ability to guide the selection of treatments and prediction of prognosis. An opposing perspective is that of reification, in which the diagnosis is viewed as being more real than it really is. The concept of rheostasis may help to explain some features of this condition, such as why major depressive episodes sometimes seem understandable or even adaptive (e.g. in the context of bereavement) whereas at other times such episodes are inexplicable and maladaptive.

Diagnostic Criteria for Major Depressive Disorder in Cancer Patients: A Review

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ng Chong Guan ◽  
Ahmad Hatim Sulaiman ◽  
Nor Zuraida Zainal ◽  
Marco P. M. Boks ◽  
Niek J. de Wit
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Major Depressive
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