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The hypothesis that affective disorders or some of their subforms also might have an organic basis certainly is not new to present-day psychiatry. It may suffice to mention that Kraepelin, one of the “founding fathers of modern psychiatry” (1), suspected a degenerative process in the etiology of involutional melancholia (2).
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Sacchetti, E. et al. (1990). Neuromorphological correlates of mood disorders: focus on cerebral ventricular enlargement. In: Cazzullo, C.L., Sacchetti, E., Conte, G., Invernizzi, G., Vita, A. (eds) Plasticity and Morphology of the Central Nervous System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0851-2_7
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