Open AccessIdentifying Subjective Symptoms Associated with Psychomotor Disturbance in Melancholia: A Multiple Regression Analysis Study
Author(s) -
Yu Tamada,
Takeshi Inoue,
Atsushi Sekine,
Hiroyuki Toda,
Minoru Takeshima,
Masahiro Sasaki,
Keisuke Shindome,
Wataru Morita,
Nagisa Kuyama,
Susumu Ohmae
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s300233
Subject(s) - melancholia , melancholic depression , depression (economics) , medicine , feeling , clinical psychology , major depressive disorder , atypical depression , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , psychology , anxiety , mood , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Melancholia has recently been re-evaluated, because patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) were found to be heterogeneous. However, the DSM-5 criteria for melancholia (DSM-MEL) have been criticized, because of the difficulty in clearly distinguishing between melancholic and non-melancholic depression using DSM-MEL. Psychomotor disturbance (PMD) is one of the most important, as well as one of the only measurable symptoms of melancholia. Parker et al developed the CORE measure, which assesses PMD as a behavioral characteristic. The aim of our study was to objectively identify the subjective symptoms of melancholia by analyzing the symptoms associated with PMD.