title: Major depression with mood-congruent or mood-incongruent psychotic features: outcome after 40 years.
abstract: Using cross-sectional evaluations 40 years after index admissions, the authors compared depressed patients with mood-congruent and those with mood-incongruent psychotic features. These patients were then compared with patients with nonpsychotic major depression, schizophreniform disorder, or schizophrenia. Outcome in the mood-congruent group resembled that in the nonpsychotic group and was significantly better than that in the mood-incongruent group. Patients in this latter group, however, had significantly better follow-up scores than did schizophrenic patients. These findings are consistent with a short-term outcome and family history study and suggest that patients with major depression and mood-incongruent psychotic features constitute a more diagnostically heterogeneous group than do those with mood-congruent psychotic features.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology