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Relevance of Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Cerebral Glucose Metabolism to the Bipolar-Unipolar Dichotomy

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD; Lewis R. Baxter, Jr, MD; John C. Mazziotta, MD, PhD; Robert H. Gerner, MD; Michael E. Phelps, PhD

JAMA. 1987;258(10):1368-1374.

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DEPRESSIVE disorders are conditions whose high prevalence^1,2 and frequent need for medical intervention³ require increased understanding in the general medical community. Antidepressants are prescribed with increasing frequency by a wide range of medical practitioners and a recent listing of the most prescribed drugs included seven antidepressants.⁴ Data from an ongoing National Institute of Mental Health epidemiologic study,² using diagnostic criteria from DSM-III,⁵ indicate that in the general population there is a six-month prevalence of depressive disorders (bipolar and unipolar) of about 5%. Furthermore, over 75% of persons with recent depressive disorders have sought medical treatment of some type in the last six months and nearly half of all mental health—related visits made by depressed individuals are to general medical practitioners.³ These figures constitute a compelling reason for all physicians to be familiar with the typology of depressive disorders.

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Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Science (Drs Schwartz, Baxter, and Gerner) and Neurology (Dr Mazziotta) and the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics, the Department of Radiology and Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine (Drs Baxter, Mazziotta, and Phelps), UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
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