The Origins of Depression: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on The Origins of Depression: Current Concepts and Approaches Berlin 1982, Oct.31 – Nov. 5 (1983) (Dahlem Workshop Report #26)

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3 and a fraction mayor may not respond to treatment. On the behavioral level, animal research shows that a variety of experimental conditions can induce de­ pression. The same is true in the field of treatment, where pharmacologically highly different drugs can equally alleviate depression in animals and hu­ mans. The question as to whether this is due to a heterogeneity of depressive subjects based on different pathogenetic mechanisms is open to discussion. We can look for common features of all possible causal factors in the hope of finding a single basic mechanism. Many divergent findings may also be ex­ plained as peripheral changes of a highly complicated dynamic system. In the field of psychopharmacology, a circular reasoning has become evident in the sense that originally the clinical antidepressive response was founded on empirical grounds only. In a second step, an attempt was made to characterize some clinically active compounds pharmacologically, and in a third, further compounds were developed based on aspects of the pharmaco­ logical profiles. Moreover, the post hoc development of a pharmacological screening method has the serious disadvantage of delaying breakthroughs into new fields.

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1983

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9783642691294

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Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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English

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J. Angst

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A. Carlsson

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B.J. Carroll

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H. Helmchen

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A. Herz

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G.I. Klerman

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W.T. McKinney