Major depressive disorder: reification and (maybe) rheostasis
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Major depressive disorder: reification and (maybe) rheostasis.
The heterogeneity of clinical syndromes subsumed by diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) is regarded by some as a reason to abandon or modify the criteria. However, heterogeneity may be unavoidable because of the biopsychosocial complexity of depression. MDD may be characterised by complexities that cannot be distilled down to any brief set of diagnostic criteria. Psychiatris...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2045-7960,2045-7979
DOI: 10.1017/s2045796015000682