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Anhedonia, not irritability, linked to more severe MDD in adolescents
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30051
Subject(s) - irritability , anhedonia , major depressive disorder , psychiatry , psychology , mood , clinical psychology , dsm 5 , depression (economics) , depressive symptoms , population , medicine , anxiety , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
Major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents requires only irritability as a diagnostic criteria, while MDD in adults requires anhedonia or depressed mood. Because the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) doesn't account for symptom variety in depressed adolescents, MDD in this population has been characterized by high heterogeneity and complexity. Therefore, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and the New York University Langone Medical Center, all in New York, studied the relationship between two core symptoms of adolescent MDD — irritability and anhedonia — and other clinical correlates.