Clinical and Familial Subtypes of Mood Disorders: Observation, Opinion, and Purpose

摘要: Classification has the general purpose of promoting understanding. In science, ordering information seeks to make past observation more intelligible and future events predictable. It also acts as an implicit guide those who are conducting research into various phenomena. Principally, strategies employed in classification clustering like phenomena groups or distributing them upon a continuum dimension change. Observation how relationships among change over time adds sophistication either strategy. Charles Darwin devoted his life one grand classification—to development systematic arrangement by which all living extinct organisms united complex, radiating, circuitous lines affinities few classes.2 He rested theory origin species meticulous wide variety that he observed during voyage with “Beagle.”