[Illness duration and age-repartition of depressive patients without treatment (author's transl)].
The authors have studied the histories of some depressed patients during the period between the World Wars who didn't receive any treatment; they classified them by using modern criteria. They found out that the cases of unipolar depression had spent relatively short time at the hospital. There was no evidence for a difference between the periods before and after the introduction of shocks and thymoleptic drugs.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors
Durée et répartition par classe d'âges des épisodes dépressifs sans traitement.