Parker, Gordon and Hadzi-Pavlovic, Dusan (eds.)
Contributors: Introduction/CLASSIFICATION AND RESEARCH: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS 1. Issues in classification: I. Some historical aspects/ 2. Issues in classification: II. Classifying melancholia/ 3. Issues in classification: III. Utilizing behavioral constructs in melancholia research/ 4. Issues in classification: IV. Some statistical aspects/ DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE OF PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION AS A MARKER OF MELANCHOLIA 5. Psychomotor change as a feature of depressive disorders: historical overview and current assessment strategies/ 6. Development and structure of the CORE system/ 7. Reliability of the CORE measure/ 8. Validity of the CORE: I. A neuroendocrinological strategy/ 9. Validity of the CORE: II. Neuropsychological tests/ 10. Validity of the CORE: III. Outcome and treatment prediction/ 11. Phenotypic expression of melancholia contrasted for those with bipolar and unipolar illness courses/ 12. Psychotic depression: clinical definition, status and the relevance of psychomotor disturbance to its definition/ 13. A clinical algorithm for defining melancholia: comparison with other sub-typing measures/ 14. Rating the CORE: a user's guide; THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MELANCHOLIA 15. Melancholia as a neurological disorder/ 16. Melancholia and the aging brain/ 17. Magnetic resonance imaging in primary and secondary depression/ 18. Functional neuroimaging in affective disorders/ 19. Summary and conclusions/ APPENDIX/ The CORE measure: procedural recommendations and rating guidelines
Subject: medicine
1996 6 x 9 350 pp. 9 line diagrams 15 tables
Hardback 0-521-47275-X
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