Evidence-Based Reviews

The first of 2 parts: A practical approach to subtyping depression among your patients

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Dr. Goldberg has been a consultant to Avanir Pharmaceuticals and Merck; has served on the speakers’ bureau for AstraZeneca, Merck, Novartis, Sunovion
Pharmaceuticals, and Takeda and Lundbeck; and has received royalties from American Psychiatric Publishing and honoraria from Medscape and WebMD.


Editor’s note:
The second part of Dr. Goldberg’s review of depression subtypes—fo­cusing on “situational,” treatment-resistant, melancholic, agitated, anxious, and atypical depression; depression occurring with a sub­stance use disorder; premenstrual dysphoric disorder; and seasonal affective disorder—will appear in the May 2014 issue of Current Psychiatry.

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