Abstract
To evaluate Post Stroke Depression, we use CODE DD System, a polidiagnostic system designed and developed by Professor Thomas Ban, Vanderbilt University, USA.
The aim of CODE DD system is to help define homogeneous diagnostic biological groups, since, as Ban says, there is an increasing evidence that a valid psychiatric nosology is an essential prerequisite for the better interpretation of the contributions of the neurosciences.
We use Code DD system to evaluate Post Stroke Depression. Based on this methodology, we can get simultaneous diagnoses in 25 European, British and American diagnostic systems. When we finish a semistructured interview, which analyses 90 variables significant to the depressive illness, we obtain the affection status of 10 functional areas, together with a severity score.
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Early insomnia - Motor restlessness
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Depersonalization - Disorders of the experience of the self
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Disturbance of concentration - Retarded thinking
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Phobias - Delusions
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Anxiety - Hostility
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Constricted affect - Apathetic indifference
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Feelings of inadequacy - Hopelessness
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Displeasure - Dysphoria
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Vegetative manifestations - Abulia
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Decreased sex drive - Suicidal tendencies
Code DD system enables us, in the first place, to have a more comprehensive point of view of the PSD incidence.
Our percentages are higher (70%) than the ones mentioned in other works.
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Sorín-Lidia, G., Salto-Marcela, S., Ucha-Ronaldo et al. Reversible Monoamine Oxidase-A Inhibitor (Moclobemide) and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI). Neuropsychopharmacol 11, 263 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1380127
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