Survival of Melancholia: a Retrospective Study of Patients with Depressive Disorders.

CONCLUSION: Melancholic depression has an identifiable constellation of symptoms and it is not just a severe form of major depression. Melancholic depression is not the result of age-related or pathoplastic changes. We advocate including melancholia as its own illness entity in the next edition of the DSM. PMID: 32611825 [PubMed - in process]
Source: East Asian Archives of Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: East Asian Arch Psychiatry Source Type: research