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Definition of Major depressive episode

1. Noun. (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Major Depressive Episode

Literary usage of Major depressive episode

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"A major depressive episode involves a depression in mood with an accompanying ... There are nine symptoms of a major depressive episode listed in the DSM-IV ..."

2. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"As in the two previous years, in 1996, major depressive episode was by far the most commonly reported syndrome, occurring at a rate of 6.3% during the past ..."

3. Joining Forces on Solid-Waste Management: Regionalization Is Working in by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Blacks were the least likely to experience a major depressive episode both within their lifetime and in the past month. 20% T Percent of Major Depression by ..."

4. Depression in Primary Care: Detection and Diagnosi by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"A major depressive episode can occur as part of a primary mood disorder (eg, major depressive or bipolar disorder), as part of other ..."

5. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Main Findings, 1996 by Angela Brittingham (1998)
"As in the two previous years, in 1996, major depressive episode was by far the most commonly reported syndrome, occurring at a rate of 6.3% during the past ..."

6. Somatization Disorder in the Medical Setting by G. Richard Smith, Jr., DIANE Publishing Company (1990)
"And yet, when these same patients were administered the DIS, only 40 percent had lifetime histories of a major depressive episode. An additional 9 percent ..."

7. Depression in Primary Care: Vol. 2. Treatment of Major Depression: Clinical by DIANE Publishing Company (1993)
"If a patient has a major depressive episode thought to be biologically caused by a nonpsychiatric, general medical disorder, the practitioner is advised to ..."

8. Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services: Put Prevention Into Practice by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"The diagnostic criteria for a major depressive episode, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-ffl-R), ..."

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