Agitated and mixed depression
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BACKGROUND Depression with psychomotor agitation (PMA; "agitated depression") is a putative psychiatric phenotype that appears to associate with some forms of substance dependence. However, it is unclear whether such relationships extend across different substances and independent (I-MDE) versus substance-induced (SI-MDE) subtypes of major depressive episodes. METHOD We examined whether lifet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of General Psychiatry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1744-859X
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859x-7-s1-s94