The CANMAT Task Force Recommendations For The Management Of Patients With Mood Disorders & Comorbid Medical Conditions: Diagnostic, Assessment, & Treatment Principles
Key Messages
This review article examined evidence that supports a bidirectional relationship between medical illness and mood disorders. This relationship involves a complex interplay of shared and specific etiological factors, the exact nature of which may vary between individual patients. Heightened stress responses in particular may be a key shared etiological factor in the comorbidity of depression and medical illness.
The authors indicated that an “inclusive” approach to assessing depression in the medically ill, whereby all depressive symptoms are counted irrespective of …
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