Convulsive and Drug Therapies of Depression

Fink, Max

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“…In 1980, Craig Nelson and Dennis Charney at Yale commented on the 'non-specific' nature of major depression: 'The signs and symptoms of a major depressive episode appear to define a heterogeneous group that may be further divided into those patients having an autonomous depression or melancholia and those who are responsive to environmental stimuli' (33). The following year, in 1981, Max Fink found the new DSM categories 'of limited usefulness in selecting a therapy for a depressed individual' (34).…”

Section: The Two Depressions Re-emergementioning

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The doctrine of the two depressions in historical perspective

Shorter

2007

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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Objective-To determine if the concept of two separate depressions -melancholia and nonmelancholia -has existed in writings of the main previous thinkers about mood disorders.Method-Representative contributions to writing on mood disorders over the past hundred years have been systematically evaluated.Results-The concept of two separate depressions does indeed emerge in the psychiatric literature from the very beginning of modern writing about the concept of 'melancholia'. For the principal nosologists of psychiatry, melancholic depression has always meant something quite different from non-melancholic depression. Exceptions to this include Aubrey Lewis and Karl Leonhard. Yet the balance of opinion among the chief theorists overwhelmingly favors the existence of two quite different illnesses. Conclusion-The concept of 'major depression' popularized in DSM-III in 1980 is a historical anomaly. It mixes together psychopathologic entities that previous generations of experienced clinicians and thoughtful nosologists had been at pains to keep separate. Recently, there has been a tendency to return to the concept of two depressions: melancholic and non-melancholic illness. 'Major depression' is coming into increasing disfavor. In the next edition of DSM (DSM-V), major depression should be abolished; melancholic mood disorder (MMD) and non-melancholic mood disorder (NMMD) should become two of the principle entities in the mood disorder section.

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Section: The Two Depressions Re-emergementioning

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The doctrine of the two depressions in historical perspective

Shorter

2007

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Ac cord ing to some re ports, de pres sion dur ing preg nancy has come to be seen as a spe cific in di ca tion for the first-line use of ECT (73)(74)(75). There are, to date, no pro spec tive con trolled stud ies that com pare rates of ECT com pli ca tions dur ing pregnancy with those of other treat ments vs no treat ment.…”

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The Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Special Patient Populations

Rabheru

2001

Can J Psychiatry

107

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Back ground: De spite its well-established ef fi cacy and its in creas ing use, elec tro con vul sive ther apy (ECT) re mains a con tro versial treat ment. Lack of clar ity in the is sues re lated to its use in spe cial pa tient popu la t ions (for ex am ple, in chil dren populations, children, adolescents, pregnancy, postpartum, elderly, frail elderly, medically-ill, brain tumours A l though the use of elec tro con vul sive ther apy (ECT) for treat ment of se vere de pres sion and other men tal dis orders has been well es tab lished (1,2), it con tin ues to cre ate con tro versy (3,4). It is there fore vi tally im por tant for cli nicians to be aware of the avail able evi dence for ECT use in spe cial and vul ner able popu la tions. De spite the ex po nen tial growth in the un der stand ing of ECT neu ro bi ol ogy (5,6), its mode of ac tion is still un clear. This ar ti cle criti cally ex am ines the rele vant lit era ture and pro vides clini cal guide lines for the use of ECT in spe cial pa tient popu la tions. These con sist of the child, ado les cent, and eld erly popu la tions; preg nant and postpar tum pa tients; and those with con cur rent medi cal con ditions who re quire ECT. This pa per re fers the reader to the Ameri can Psy chi at ric As so cia tion (APA) task force re port on the prac tice of ECT (sec ond edi tion), re leased in Janu ary 2001, for spe cific in di ca tions and con tra in di ca tions (7).

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Epidemiologic Considerations in Electroconvulsive Therapy

Babigian¹,

Guttmacher²

1984

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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Convulsive and Drug Therapies of Depression

Cited by 11 publications

References 55 publications

The doctrine of the two depressions in historical perspective

The doctrine of the two depressions in historical perspective

The Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Special Patient Populations

Epidemiologic Considerations in Electroconvulsive Therapy

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