Affective Disorders, Psychotic - Classification
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Does major depressive disorder with somatic delusions constitute a distinct subtype of major depressive disorder with psychotic features?

2 Jun 2008 BACKGROUND: Among patients with major depression with psychotic features, little is known about the extent to which those with and without somatic delusions differ. METHODS: The first 183 participants in the STOP-PD study were divided into two ... Read more...

What is a psychosis and where is it located?

30 May 2008 Kraepelin's dichotomy, manic-depressive insanity and dementia praecox, are contrasting and true endogenous disease entities which affect excitability, the fundamental property of the CNS. Kraepelin wanted to establish a valid classification and hit ... Read more...

The work of Emil Kraepelin and his research group in München.

30 May 2008 Emil Kraepelin is well known due to his development of the psychiatric classification. The ICD-10 and DSM-IV classification is based on the dichotomy of endogenous psychoses into affective psychoses and schizophrenia as early as 1899. Moreover, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Affective Disorders, Psychotic - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Re: Toward a hippocratic psychopharmacology. 30 May 2009
• Diagnosis of functional psychoses: time to face the future. 15 Jan 2009
• Does major depressive disorder with somatic delusions constitute a distinct subtype of major depressive disorder with psychotic features? 2 Jun 2008
• What is a psychosis and where is it located? 30 May 2008
• The work of Emil Kraepelin and his research group in München. 30 May 2008
• Diagnosis and course of affective psychoses: was Kraepelin right? 30 May 2008
• Long-term clinical course of patients with acute polymorphic psychotic disorder without symptoms of schizophrenia. 30 Jul 2006
• Schizoaffective disorders are psychotic mood disorders; there are no schizoaffective disorders. 18 Jul 2006
• Psychotic bipolar disorders: dimensionally similar to or categorically different from schizophrenia? 30 Dec 2003
• [The Danish translation of the diagnostic child and adolescent psychiatric interview "Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-aged Children, Present and Lifetime Version"] 22 Jun 2002
• Development of an integrated model of personality, personality disorders and severe axis I disorders, with special reference to major affective disorders. 30 Mar 2002
• Classification issues in catatonia. 30 Dec 2000
• Depression, mania, and feeling bad: the role of dysphoria in mixed states. 29 Nov 2000
• A theoretical reappraisal of mixed states: dysphoria as a third dimension. 29 Nov 2000
• Heterogeneity of cycloid psychoses: a latent class analysis. 29 Apr 2000
• Subtyping micromanic episodes. 30 Jan 2000
• Clinical and demographic features of psychotic and nonpsychotic depression. 30 Aug 1999
• Psychotic subtyping of major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. 29 Apr 1999
• Somatic morbidity among patients diagnosed with affective psychoses and paranoid disorders. A case-control study. 29 Apr 1998
• [Power, status and valency in relationship to affective psychoses, schizoaffective and neurotic depression of patients] 29 Nov 1997

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Technical information about 'Affective Disorders, Psychotic'

Definition: Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

Descriptor UI: D000341

Alternative terms: Affective Disorders, Psychotic; Psychoses, Affective; Affective Psychoses; Psychotic Affective Disorders; Affective Disorder, Psychotic; Disorder, Psychotic Affective; Disorders, Psychotic Affective; Psychotic Affective Disorder; Psychotic Mood Disorders; Mood Disorder, Psychotic; Psychotic Mood Disorder; Mood Disorders, Psychotic; Depression, Reactive, Psychotic;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150;

Online Note: use AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC to search DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC 1977-80; search AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES under AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS 1969-80

History Note: 81; DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC was see under PSYCHOSES 1977-80; AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES was heading 1969-80