Depresive Disorders: therapeutic and clinical features

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  • A. HIGUERAS

Abstract

About one hundred millons people will experience Depression each year out of the

world's total population. The principie symptoms of these disorders can be viwed in

the following groupings: l.- Mood reduction; 2.-Alteration of cognitive funtion; 3.Alteration

of throught content; 4.-Impulse disorders; 5.- Suicidal tendencies and

anxiety.

Symptoms and their evolution configure into several diagnostics. In this work we

describe three: Major Depression (M.D.), Bipolar disorder (B.D.) and Dysthymia (D.).

Here we challenge the standard definition of the term Dysthymia. Rather, we propose:

Sudepressive syndrome of long evolution.

There are epidemiologycal diferences betwen the three diagnosis. M.D. are three

times more prevalent in women, while B.D. are in practice equal in both sexes: 0 ,9%

of the general population. There are also diferences fron the viewpoint of pharmacological

treatment: while 60-70% ofthe patients with D.M. and B.D. respond favorably, patients

with D. experience bad or no response. We don't know well the pharmacodinamie of

antidepressants drugs, so we describe several hypothesis.

Lastly we suggest diferent approachs to helping these patients.

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Published

1996-09-20

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HIGUERAS A. Depresive Disorders: therapeutic and clinical features. Ars Pharm [Internet]. 1996 Sep. 20 [cited 2024 May 18];37(3):539-47. Available from: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/ars/article/view/21795

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Vol. 37 No. 3 (1996)

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