Rorsman B, Gräsbeck A, Hagnell O, Isberg P E, Otterbeck L
Department of Psychiatry, Lund University, Sweden.
Neuropsychobiology. 1993;27(2):72-9. doi: 10.1159/000118956.
The search for specific predepressive personality factors has a long tradition in psychiatry. Studies in which assessments were made prospectively, before the onset of a first-ever episode of the illness, are, however, rare. In the present report from the Lundby Study we have investigated premorbid, mainly personality-related background factors for first incidences of depressive disorder, diagnosed according to the Lundby criteria for 'Depression proper' and 'Depression plus other psychiatric symptoms'. The items found to be of a predictive value differed between the two diagnostic subgroups and also between men and women. The findings are discussed and compared with earlier predictor studies on depression.
