Volume 36 · Number 1
JANUARY 2006

What Do We Know and What Don’t We Know?

By Jan Fawcett, MD

The first 2006 issue of Psychiatric Annals, guest edited by Barnett Meyers, MD, focuses on the important topic of psychotic depression. This author is persuaded by both clinical experience and this series of articles that psychotic major depression is a most important entity based on many of the variables discussed in this issue, is frequently undiagnosed, needs more research into its biology and particularly its treatment, and should be a major diagnostic category of its own, rather than a feature of major depression, in our official diagnostic criteria.

 

Psychotic Depression
Barnett S. Meyers, MD

A 38-year-old Man With Anxiety, Intrusive Violent Thoughts

Psychiatry in the News

CE article Pharmacotherapy of Major Depression with Psychotic Features: What is the Evidence?
Carmen Andreescu, MD; Benoit H. Mulsant, MD; Anthony J. Rothschild, MD; Alastair J. Flint, MD, FRCPC, FRANZCP; Barnett S. Meyers, MD; Ellen Whyte, MD

CE article Challenges in Differentiating and Diagnosing Psychotic Depression
Anthony J. Rothschild, MD; Benoit H. Mulsant, MD; Barnett S. Meyers, MD; Alastair J. Flint, MD, FRCPC, FRANZCP

CE article Research Assessment of Patients With Psychotic Depression: The STOP-PD Approach
Alastair J. Flint, MD, FRCPC, FRANZCP; Ayal Schaffer, MD, FRCPC; Barnett S. Meyers, MD; Anthony J. Rothschild, MD; Benoit H. Mulsant, MD

CE article Methodological Issues in Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial for Psychotic Depression: The STOP-PD Study
Barnett S. Meyers, MD; Catherine Peasley-Miklus, PhD; Alastair J. Flint, MD, FRCPC, FRANZCP; Benoit H. Mulsant, MD; Anthony J. Rothschild, MD

The Clinical Significance of Psychotic Depression
Diana Feldman, MD

 

Sign up for the News Wire Meet the Medical Editor Meet the Editorial Board Send a Letter to the Editor