Use of the Research Diagnostic Criteria and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia to study affective disorders.

摘要: in a pilot study of 150 manic or depressive patients, the authors used Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and Schedulefor Affective Disorders Schizophrenia (SADS) to perform preliminary analyses symptom pictures index episode different diagnostic groups,joint classification subtypes major disorder, differential outcome by groups. The results suggest that schizophrenic symptoms affective disorders do have prognostic significance, term “psychotic depression” should be limited impaired reality testing without reference degree incapacitation, situational-nonsituational endogenous-nonendogenous classifications are separate subtypes, it may not true patients with endogenous disorder better prognosis than nonendogenous depression. criteria would enable investigators compare studies which use ways classifying patients. As result, is usually impossible know if one investigator’s who characterized, for example, as having ‘ ‘severe depression,’ correspond another described depression.” second problem has been absence uniform procedures collecting information make diagnoses describe characteristics samples. part NIMH-Clinical Branch Col