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Problematic assumptions have slowed down depression research: why symptoms, not syndromes are the way forward

Major depression (MD) is a highly heterogeneous diagnostic category. Diverse symptoms such as sad mood, anhedonia, and fatigue are routinely added to an unweighted sum-score, and cutoffs are used to distinguish between depressed participants and healthy controls. Researchers then investigate outcome...

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Autor principal: Fried, Eiko I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25852621
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00309