[Somato-autonomic symptoms in different types of seasonal affective disorders].
Ninety-seven patients (76 female, mean age 31,2 years and 21 male, mean age 34,6 years) who had a diagnosis (according to ICD-10) of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), depressive episode, have been studied. It is shown that SAD included at least two types of depression with different somato-autonomic symptoms. They were classified as SAD with anesthetic somato-autonomic complex (type 1) and SAD with hyperesthetic somato-autonomic complex (type 2). The authors set up a hypothesis that a particular personality predisposition (constitutional or acquired) in a form of hypochondriac diathesis (type 1) and neuropathic diathesis with weather and climate sensitivity (type 2) can be considered as a causative factor of seasonality of depression and predomination of somato-autonomic symptoms in its structure.
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D000328:Adult; D002149:Energy Intake; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016574:Seasonal Affective Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology