Commentary on diagnosing major depressive disorder: Ask less that we embrace major depression and ask more what the concept does for us

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 155-157

  Parker, Gordon Barraclough ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; RESTLESSNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33645104041     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000202236.34280.42     Document Type: Editorial

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