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Robert W. Shapiro
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 23
Citations - 2142
Robert W. Shapiro is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Angiogenin & Major depressive disorder. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 22 publications receiving 2103 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert W. Shapiro include University of Bath.
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Reliability studies of psychiatric diagnosis. Theory and practice.
William M. Grove,Nancy C. Andreasen,Patricia McDonald-Scott,Martin B. Keller,Robert W. Shapiro +4 more
TL;DR: The problems of research design and execution in studies of diagnostic reliability are reviewed, and statistical problems are examined, and solutions to many of these problems are suggested, including recommendations of appropriate reliability coefficients and data analyses.
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"Double depression": superimposition of acute depressive episodes on chronic depressive disorders.
TL;DR: The authors found that patients withsuperimposed depression relapsed at a significantly higher rate immediately after recovery from the acute episode of depression than did patients without superimposed depression.
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Recovery in Major Depressive Disorder: Analysis With the Life Table and Regression Models
TL;DR: Several clinical variables were statistically significant predictors of recovery when measured from entry into the study: superimposition of the acute episode on a chronic underlying depression, acuteness of onset of he depression, and severity of depression for the subgroup of patients without superimposed illness.
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Relapse in Major Depressive Disorder Analysis With the Life Table
TL;DR: A high risk of relapse was detected shortly after recovery and the presence of an underlying chronic depression and three or more previous affective episodes predicted a statistically significant increase in the rate of relapse.
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Reliability of lifetime diagnosis. A multicenter collaborative perspective
Nancy C. Andreasen,William M. Grove,Robert W. Shapiro,Martin B. Keller,Robert M. A. Hirschfeld,Patricia McDonald-Scott +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that it is possible to make lifetime diagnoses reliably in a nonpatient population when the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime Version and Research Diagnostic Criteria were used to interview ill and well relatives of probands in the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Study of the Psychobiology of Depression.