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Mixed anxiety–depression in a 1 year follow-up study: shift to other diagnoses or remission?

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While depressive disorders and anxiety disorders showed relatively high stability, MAD cannot be seen as a stable diagnosis: most of MAD patients remit; many of them shift to other diagnoses than depression or anxiety.
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This article is published in Journal of Affective Disorders.The article was published on 2004-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anxiety disorder & Anxiety.

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Comorbidity: a network perspective.

TL;DR: A method to visualize comorbidity networks is proposed and it is argued that this approach generates realistic hypotheses about pathways to comor bidity, overlapping symptoms, and diagnostic boundaries, that are not naturally accommodated by latent variable models.
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Anxiety disorders in older adults: a comprehensive review†

TL;DR: Prevalence and symptom expression of anxiety disorders in late life, as well as risk factors, comorbidity, cognitive decline, age of onset, and treatment efficacy for older adults are reviewed.
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Psychiatric Diagnosis: Lessons from the DSM-IV Past and Cautions for the DSM-5 Future

TL;DR: It is suggested that future editions of the diagnostic manual be developed under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine, with broad representation, an evidence-based approach, disinterested recommendations, and a careful attention to the risks and benefits of each suggestion for change to the individual patient, to public policy, and to forensic applications.
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Public health significance of mixed anxiety and depression: beyond current classification

TL;DR: The data support the pathological significance of MADD in its negative impact upon population health and suggest Dimensional approaches to classification may provide a more parsimonious description of anxiety and depressive disorders compared with categorical approaches.
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Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.

TL;DR: The temporal consistency of mental disorders was poor, ranging from 29% for specific personality disorders to 70% for schizophrenia, with stability greatest for in- patient diagnoses and least for out-patient diagnoses.
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Q1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Mixed anxiety–depression in a 1 year follow-up study: shift to other diagnoses or remission?" ?

In 1992, the ICD-10 introduced the concept of mixed anxiety–depression disorder ( MAD ). However, a study examining the stability of this ICD-10-diagnosis is lacking. Limitations: Detailed information regarding treatment and disorders during the follow-up interval was lacking.