Sato T, Sakado K, Uehara T, Sato S
Department of Psychiatry, Niigata City General Hospital, Japan.
Psychopathology. 1994;27(1-2):43-7. doi: 10.1159/000284847.
We investigated the age distribution of the typus melancholicus (TM) score, measured by Kasahara's scale, in 119 outpatients with major depression and in 600 workers without a history of depression. In the patient group, the score was, regardless of age, always constant at a high level. The TM score for the control group increased with aging and was in most age groups significantly lower than that for the patient group. This result suggests that a higher TM score on the scale would be a risk factor and a possible trait marker of major depression.
我们通过笠原量表测量了119名重度抑郁症门诊患者和600名无抑郁症病史的工作人员的抑郁质（TM）得分的年龄分布情况。在患者组中，无论年龄大小，该得分始终处于较高水平。对照组的TM得分随年龄增长而升高，且在大多数年龄组中显著低于患者组。这一结果表明，该量表上较高的TM得分可能是重度抑郁症的一个风险因素和潜在的特质标记。
