Improving Major Depressive Episode Assessment: A New Tool Developed by Formal Psychological Assessment
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Improving Major Depressive Episode Assessment: A New Tool Developed by Formal Psychological Assessment
Aim: Major depressive episode (MDE) can manifest with different features. Discriminating between different types of MDEs is crucial for proper treatment. The aim of this study is to propose a new tool for MDE assessment in bipolar disorder (BD) or major depressive disorder (MDD) to overcome some limitations of current rating scales. The proposed tool investigates all of the clinical features of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00214