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Mental Disorders > Mood Disorders > Depressive Disorder > Depressive Disorder, Major

Preferred term

Depressive Disorder, Major  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Major Depressive Disorder

Scope note

  • Disorder in which five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure. Symptoms include: depressed mood most of the day, nearly every daily; markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities most of the day, nearly every day; significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain; Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day; psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day; fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day; feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt; diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day; or recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt. (DSM-5)

History note

  • 81; was PSYCHOSES, INVOLUTIONAL 1963-80; MELANCHOLIA, INVOLUTIONAL was see under PSYCHOSES, INVOLUTIONAL 1963-78

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • laaja-alainen depressiivinen häiriö
  • laaja-alainen depressiohäiriö
  • laaja-alainen masennushäiriö
  • laaja-alainen masentuneisuushäiriö
  • masennustila
  • vaikea depressio
  • vaikea masennus
  • vaikea masennustila
  • vaikea-asteinen depressio
  • vaikea-asteinen masennus
  • vaikea-asteinen masennustila
  • vaikea-asteinen masentuneisuushäiriö
  • vakava depressio
  • vakava masennus
  • vakava masentuneisuushäiriö
  • Swedish

  • Dpressionstillstånd i 40-60-årsåldern
  • Involutionsdepression
  • Involutionsmelankoli
  • Involutionspsykos

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003865

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