Dexamethasone Suppression Test and Depressive Symptoms in Schizophrenics and Endogenous Depressed Patients

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 48-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Perényi ◽  
E. Frecska ◽  
Z. Rihmer ◽  
M. Arató
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression Test ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Suppression Test ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression

A study of the dexamethasone suppression test in hospitalized depressed patients

1984 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Ames ◽  
G. Burrows ◽  
B. Davies ◽  
K. Maguire ◽  
T. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Dexamethasone Suppression Test ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Suppression Test ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression

Depressive symptoms and the dexamethasone suppression test in parkinsonian patients

1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Luiz Frochtengarten ◽  
João C.B. Villares ◽  
Eliana Maluf ◽  
E.A. Carlini
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression Test ◽  
Suppression Test ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression

National Differences in Dexamethasone Suppression Test Results and Suicide Rates

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 878-878
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Dexamethasone Suppression Test ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Suppression Test ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression

For 10 nations suicide rates were not correlated with the percentages of depressed patients who responded abnormally to the Dexamethasone Suppression Test.

Speech Pause Time as a Method for the Evaluation of Psychomotor Retardation in Depressive Illness

1985 ◽  
Vol 146 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. A. Hoffman ◽  
J. C. Gonze ◽  
J. Mendlewicz
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Sleep Latency ◽  
Depressive Illness ◽  
Psychomotor Retardation ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression Test ◽  
Pause Time ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Suppression Test ◽  
Dexamethasone Suppression

SummaryPsychomotor retardation is important in some depressed patients. We found that speech pause time (SPT) during a counting test correlated with the reaction time of both depressed patients and controls. It also correlated with global psychomotor retardation measured on Widlocher's scale. We demonstrated increased SPT in unipolar depressives, and also in retarded depressives as a group when compared with controls and with non-retarded depressives. SPT varied diurnally in controls, but not in depressed subjects. It did not correlate with biological markers of depression (REM sleep latency and the dexamethasone suppression test). It did, however, shorten during clinical improvement with antidepressant chemotherapy.

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