Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Smirnova D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902561 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smirnova Daria D Cumming Paul P Sloeva Elena E Kuvshinova Natalia N Romanov Dmitry D Nosachev Gennadii G
Frontiers in psychiatry 20180410
<h4>Objectives</h4>Deviations from typical word use have been previously reported in clinical depression, but language patterns of mild depression (MD), as distinct from normal sadness (NS) and euthymic state, are unknown. In this study, we aimed to apply the linguistic approach as an additional diagnostic key for understanding clinical variability along the continuum of affective states.<h4>Methods</h4>We studied 402 written reports from 124 Russian-speaking patients and 77 healthy controls (HC ...[more]