On the Differential Diagnosis of Anxious from Nonanxious Major Depression by means of the Hamilton Scales

Objective. Anxious major depressive disorder (A-MDD) is differentially diagnosed from nonanxious MDD (NA-MDD) as MDD with a cut-off score ≥7 on the HAM-D anxiety-somatization factor (ASF). We investigated whether additional HAM-D items discriminate A-MDD from NA-MDD. Moreover, we tested the validit...

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Main Authors: Konstantakopoulos, George, Masdrakis, Vasilios G., Markianos, Manolis, Oulis, Panagiotis
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826330/