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Short-term prognosis in primary and secondary major depression
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Short-term prognosis in primary and secondary major depression

William Coryell, Mark Zimmerman and Bruce Pfohl
Journal of affective disorders, Vol.9(3), pp.265-270
1985
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(85)90057-6
PMID: 2934460

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Abstract

Among inpatients treated without ECT, those with primary unipolar depression had significantly better outcomes at discharge than did those with secondary depression. This difference grew more striking during a 6-month follow-up; patients with secondary depression were clearly less likely to recover from the index depressive episode and had substantially higher symptom levels at the time of follow-up. In contrast, patients with DSM-III melancholia resembled depressed patients without melancholia on all outcome measures.
Primary major depression Secondary major depression Prognosis Melancholia DSM-III

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