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Depression symptom dimensions as predictors of antidepressant treatment outcome: replicable evidence for interest-activity symptoms

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Loss of interest, diminished activity and inability to make decisions predict poor outcome of antidepressant treatment even after adjustment for overall depression severity and other clinical covariates.
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Background Symptom dimensions have not yet been comprehensively tested as predictors of the substantial heterogeneity in outcomes of antidepressant treatment in major depressive disorder.

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Depression, stress, and anhedonia: toward a synthesis and integrated model.

TL;DR: A heuristic model is presented postulating that anhedonia arises from dysfunctional interactions between stress and brain reward systems, and a synthesis of these four literatures is provided.
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Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study

TL;DR: The substantial symptom variation among individuals who all qualify for one diagnosis calls into question the status of MDD as a specific consistent syndrome and offers a potential explanation for the difficulty in documenting treatment efficacy.
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Depression sum-scores don’t add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential

TL;DR: It is suggested that the pervasive use of sum-scores to estimate depression severity has obfuscated crucial insights and contributed to the lack of progress in key research areas such as identifying biomarkers and more efficacious antidepressants.
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Cross-trial prediction of treatment outcome in depression: a machine learning approach

TL;DR: An algorithm to assess whether patients will achieve symptomatic remission from a 12-week course of citalopram is developed and predicted outcomes in the STAR*D cohort with accuracy significantly above chance.
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An inventory for measuring depression

TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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A new depression scale designed to be sensitive to change.

TL;DR: The construction of a depression rating scale designed to be particularly sensitive to treatment effects is described, and its capacity to differentiate between responders and non-responders to antidepressant treatment was better than the HRS, indicating greater sensitivity to change.
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Development of a Rating Scale for Primary Depressive Illness

TL;DR: This is an account of further work on a rating scale for depressive states, including a detailed discussion on the general problems of comparing successive samples from a ‘population’, the meaning of factor scores, and the other results obtained.
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