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Mood Disorders

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Diagnostic Interviewing

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Transient feelings of depression are a universal experience, and depressed mood is easy to recognize. The outward expression or affect of depression is on a continuum with normal experience, and even when a depressive state has a known organic precipitant (e.g., reserpine toxicity), the observable change in affect is usually one more of degree than of quality.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, 92093-0603, La Jolla, California, USA

    Hagop S. Akiskal

  2. Mental Health Clinic, Veterans Administration Hospital, 79925, El Paso, Texas, USA

    Charles van Valkenburg

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    Michel Hersen

  2. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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Akiskal, H.S., van Valkenburg, C. (1994). Mood Disorders. In: Hersen, M., Turner, S.M. (eds) Diagnostic Interviewing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2323-6_4

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