Journal article
The clinical and neuroendocrine features of psychotic depression
The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.172(9), pp.521-528
09/1984
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198409000-00002
PMID: 6470694
Abstract
The authors compared 65 patients with major depression and psychotic features to 192 patients with major depression and no psychotic features in terms of clinical features, family history, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis function. In accord with other studies, patients with psychotic depression were more likely to have bipolar depression, psychomotor disturbance, a family history of schizophrenia, and a more severely disordered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. Whether psychotic depression is best considered apart from nonpsychotic depression or as simply a more severe form of depression remains unsettled. Nevertheless, research to date does give the diagnosis of psychotic depression a practical significance which is enhanced by its simplicity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The clinical and neuroendocrine features of psychotic depression
- Creators
- W CoryellB PfohlM Zimmerman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.172(9), pp.521-528
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1097/00005053-198409000-00002
- PMID
- 6470694
- ISSN
- 0022-3018
- eISSN
- 1539-736X
- Grant note
- RR59 / NCRR NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/1984
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003485502771
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