Authors
Gordon Parker, Max Fink, Edward Shorter, Michael Alan Taylor, Hagop Akiskal, German Berrios, Tom Bolwig, Walter A Brown, Bernard Carroll, David Healy, Donald F Klein, Athanasios Koukopoulos, Robert Michels, Joel Paris, Robert T Rubin, Robert Spitzer, Conrad Swartz
Publication date
2010/7/1
Source
American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume
167
Issue
7
Pages
745-747
Publisher
American Psychiatric Association
Description
Conclusions
Melancholia is a lifetime diagnosis, typically with recurrent episodes (5, 6, 13, 14). Within the present classification it is frequently seen in severely ill patients with major depression and with bipolar disorder. Melancholia's features cluster with greater consistency than the broad heterogeneity of the disorders and conditions included in major depression and bipolar disorder. The melancholia diagnosis has superior predictive validity for prognosis and treatment, and it represents a more homogeneous category for research study.
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G Parker, M Fink, E Shorter, MA Taylor, H Akiskal… - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2010