[Clinical characteristics of depressive disorders]

In this article authors investigated the clinical distinction between endogenous and neurotic depression. The endogenous depression was equivalent to severe depressive episode without psychotic symptoms, according to ICD-X criteria, and neurotic depression was equivalent to dysthymia. The results showed that endogenous depressive patients were much older than neurotic depressives, and that they had more severe symptoms of depression. On the other hand endogenous depressive patients responded better to antidepressive therapy, and consequently they had better prognosis than neurotic depressive patients.