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Sadness as an integral part of depression
Sadness is considered by numerous authors to be a core symptom of depression. Currently, many arguments exist for its particular importance in depressed patients. Sadness makes up part of the various definitions of the depressive syndrome, even if its presence is not required for diagnosis. Furtherm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18979945 |
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author | Mouchet-Mages, Sabine Baylé, Franck J. |
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description | Sadness is considered by numerous authors to be a core symptom of depression. Currently, many arguments exist for its particular importance in depressed patients. Sadness makes up part of the various definitions of the depressive syndrome, even if its presence is not required for diagnosis. Furthermore, it is closely linked to the other depressive symptoms, and has prognostic value, in particular for remission. The recognition and measurement of sadness seem important for therapeutic evaluation, in clinical studies, and in depressed patients at an individual level. This paper Sadness is copresents a selective review of some of the various aspects of sadness as an integral part of depression, and an examination of its links with a disease which is a major health concern. |
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spelling | pubmed-31818782011-10-27 Sadness as an integral part of depression Mouchet-Mages, Sabine Baylé, Franck J. Dialogues Clin Neurosci Clinical Research Sadness is considered by numerous authors to be a core symptom of depression. Currently, many arguments exist for its particular importance in depressed patients. Sadness makes up part of the various definitions of the depressive syndrome, even if its presence is not required for diagnosis. Furthermore, it is closely linked to the other depressive symptoms, and has prognostic value, in particular for remission. The recognition and measurement of sadness seem important for therapeutic evaluation, in clinical studies, and in depressed patients at an individual level. This paper Sadness is copresents a selective review of some of the various aspects of sadness as an integral part of depression, and an examination of its links with a disease which is a major health concern. Les Laboratoires Servier 2008-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3181878/ /pubmed/18979945 Text en Copyright: © 2008 LLS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Research Mouchet-Mages, Sabine Baylé, Franck J. Sadness as an integral part of depression |
title | Sadness as an integral part of depression |
title_full | Sadness as an integral part of depression |
title_fullStr | Sadness as an integral part of depression |
title_full_unstemmed | Sadness as an integral part of depression |
title_short | Sadness as an integral part of depression |
title_sort | sadness as an integral part of depression |
topic | Clinical Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18979945 |
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