Parsing the clinical phenotype of depression: the need to integrate brief depressive episodes.

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OBJECTIVE: To expand the concept of recurrent brief depression (RBD) to brief depression (BD) and to test its clinical relevance. METHOD: Subjects (N = 591) were studied prospectively six times from ages 20/21 to 40/41 years. RBD was defined according to DSM-IV as episodes under 2 weeks with about monthly recurrence and work impairment. BD embraces RBD and brief depressive episodes with a frequency of 1-11 per...

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