Heterogeneity in major depression and its melancholic and atypical specifiers: a secondary analysis of STAR*D

Abstract Objectives The melancholic and atypical specifiers for a major depressive episode (MDE) are supposed to reduce heterogeneity in symptom presentation by requiring additional, specific features. Fried et al. (2020) recently showed that the melancholic specifier may increase the potential hete...

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Main Authors: Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, John F. Buss, Eiko I. Fried
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03444-3