The Prince Henry Hospital Mood Disorders Unit

Parker, Gordon

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“…The MADU at Barwon Health was established based on the Mood Disorders Unit at the Prince Henry Hospital in Sydney (Brodaty et al. 1993; Parker 1993, 2000). While the usefulness of specialist units has been well established, the role and scope of these units still needs to be clarified and needs to be tailored to each site.…”

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An audit of clinical outcomes and client and referrer satisfaction with a Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit

Lewis

Musella

Berk

et al. 2004

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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An audit of clinical outcomes and client and referrer satisfaction with a Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit

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“…In a previous paper (Parker et al 1994), we demonstrated strong correlations between CORE scores and scores on a range of cognitive tests, validating the neurocognitive impairment associated with CORE-defined PMD. Such findings raise questions as to whether the cognitive processing disturbance contributes to 'psychotic' phenomena or whether the imputed disturbance to the sub-cortical neural networks (Parker, 1993) also involves the temporal lobes, contributing to both the cognitive processing disturbance and the psychotic features.…”

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Sub-typing depression, II. Clinical distinction of psychotic depression and non-psychotic melancholia

et al. 1995

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SYNOPSISWe have attempted to clarify clinical differentiating features of psychotic depression. Forty-six depressed subjects meeting DSM-III-R criteria for major depression with psychotic features were compared with (i) DSM-defined melancholic, (ii) Newcastle-defined endogenous, and (iii) a residual DSM-defined major depressive episode group. Additionally, a ‘bottom up’ latent class analysis (LCA) suggested a larger sample of 82 ‘psychotic depressive’ subjects, and multivariate analyses contrasted these subjects with both LCA-identified melancholic and all residual depressed subjects. Analyses suggested that, in addition to two features with absolute specificity (delusions and hallucinations), both the DSM-defined and LCA-defined ‘psychotic depressive’ subjects were significantly more likely to demonstrate marked psychomotor disturbance, to report two morbid cognitions (feeling sinful and guilty; feeling deserving of punishment), as well as be more likely to report constipation, terminal insomnia, appetite/weight loss and (variable across the defined ‘psychotic depressive’ groups) loss of interest and pleasure. The study identifies a wider set of potentially discriminating clinical variables than previous studies, as well as both indicating the existence and assisting identification of ‘true’ psychotic depression in the absence of formal psychotic features being acknowledged or elicited.

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Black Bile and Psychomotor Retardation: Shades of Melancholia in Dante’sInferno

Widmer

2004

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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The history of melancholy depression is rich with images of movement retardation and mental dysfunction. The recent restoration of psychomotor symptoms to the diagnostic terminology of affective disorder is not novel to the students of medieval melancholia. The move back to the biology of this psychomotor dysfunction with the technical advances in brain imaging in recent years only echoes centuries-old writings on the centrality of movement changes in the depressive condition. The Inferno, the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's Commedia, has a wonderful abundance of allusions to the importance of psychomotor symptoms in describing the depressed individual. Slowed steps, garbled speech, frozen tears, these and many other images keep the physical manifestations of psychomotor suffering in the forefront of the reader's mind. Considering Medieval and Renaissance writings on melancholy suffering, it is fitting that Dante shows a bodily illness reflected in the hellish torments visited on the damned. From the souls of the sullen to those of the violent, the panorama of psychomotor symptoms plays a prominent role in the poem as well as in the medical and literary prose of succeeding centuries.

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The Prince Henry Hospital Mood Disorders Unit

Cited by 3 publications

References 48 publications

An audit of clinical outcomes and client and referrer satisfaction with a Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit

An audit of clinical outcomes and client and referrer satisfaction with a Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit

Sub-typing depression, II. Clinical distinction of psychotic depression and non-psychotic melancholia

Black Bile and Psychomotor Retardation: Shades of Melancholia in Dante’sInferno

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