Chronic depression: Update on classification and treatment

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 458-464

  Torpey, Dana C ^b   Klein, Daniel N ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMISULPRIDE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DULOXETINE; LEVACECARNINE;

CHRONIC DEPRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSTHYMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY; ONSET AGE; PANIC; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; SELF CARE;

EID: 58449128855     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-008-0074-6     Document Type: Review

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