title: [Atypical depression].
abstract: The principal atypical aspects of depressive disease are: minor and attenued aspects, monosymptomatic and atypical aspects (food disorders and sleep disorders), masqued aspects (somatoform, anxious, characterial and addict disorders), atypical aspects of child (anxious nevrotical disorder), pseudo-demented and characterial aspects of aged subjects. Facing to these aspects, the diagnosis of depression is evoqued on: the recent and fast advent of these disorders, their morning predominance, their recurrent character, the state of attenued depressive symptoms (anhedonia), the positive responsiveness to treatment.
authors.affiliation: Service de psychiatrie Hôpital Purpan-Casselardit, Toulouse.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Escande
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boucard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012008:Recurrence; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology