Open AccessDepressive Symptom Dimensions in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression and Their Modulation With Electroconvulsive Therapy
Author(s) -
Benjamin Wade,
Gerhard Hellemann,
Randall Espinoza,
Roger P. Woods,
Sudhanshu Joshi,
Ronny Redlich,
Anders Jørgensen,
Christopher Abbott,
Ketil J. Oedegaard,
Shawn M. McClintock,
Leif Oltedal,
Katherine L. Narr
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of ect/the journal of ect
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1533-4112
pISSN - 1095-0680
DOI - 10.1097/yct.0000000000000623
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , depression (economics) , treatment resistant depression , depressive symptoms , psychology , major depressive disorder , psychiatry , psychotherapist , medicine , clinical psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , mood , anxiety , economics , macroeconomics
Symptom heterogeneity in major depressive disorder obscures diagnostic and treatment-responsive biomarker identification. Whether symptom constellations are differentially changed by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains unknown. We investigate the clustering of depressive symptoms over the ECT index and whether ECT differentially influences symptom clusters.