Diagnosing major depressive disorder III: Can some symptoms be eliminated from the diagnostic criteria?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 313-317

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a,b   McGlinchey, Joseph B ^a   Young, Diane ^a   Chelminski, Iwona ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bayside Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Criteria; Depression; Diagnosis; Diagnostic algorithm; Major depressive disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AMBULATORY CARE; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EATING DISORDER; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AMBULATORY CARE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUICIDE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33744516665     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000217806.16329.ff     Document Type: Article

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