Retarded depression

Retarded depression is a category of depression characterized by slow thinking and behavior (psychomotor retardation).[1] It is contrasted with agitated depression (characterized by heightened psycho motor activity). Though some clinicians continue to use the term, as a diagnostic category of depression it has largely been displaced by those in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the World Health Organization ICD.[2][3]

References
  1. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retarded depression
  2. Robert J. Waldinger (1997). Psychiatry for Medical Students. American Psychiatric Pub. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-88048-789-4. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Paykel ES (2008). "Basic concepts of depression". Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. 10 (3): 279–89. PMC 3181879. PMID 18979941.


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