title: The symptom pattern variations of unipolar depression during life span: a cross-sectional study.
abstract: The psychopathological syndromes are analyzed for 436 patients suffering from a unipolar affective psychosis, depressed type, without any further psychiatric or somatic diagnosis, separately for the second to eighth decade of life. The intensity of the depressive syndrome, as well as the apathy syndrome according to the Manual for the Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology (AMDP) system, does not decrease. The autonomic syndrome increases for the group in the involutional age, and the psycho-organic syndrome for the group in the old age. The analysis of special symptom patterns, as for the agitated behavior or symptoms of the psycho-organic syndrome, is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Freie Universität Berlin, FRG.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Reischies
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: von Spiess
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Stieglitz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011599:Psychopathology