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Life events exposure before a treated major depressive episode depends on the number of past episodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Emmanuelle Corruble ,
Bruno Falissard  and
Philip Gorwood
Emmanuelle Corruble*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Bicêtre University Hospital, INSERM U 669, Paris XI University, 78, rue du General Leclerc, 94230 Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France
Bruno Falissard
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics and Public Health, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul Brousse Hospital, INSERM U669, Paris XI University, 94800 Villejuif, France
Philip Gorwood
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Louis Mourier Hospital, INSERM U675 Paris VII University, 92700 Colombes, France
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (E. Corruble).
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Abstract

A cross-sectional survey investigated the relationship between the number of previous depressive episodes and life events, testing the kindling hypothesis, in a sample of 13,377 treated patients with unipolar depression. A linear decline of average life events exposure is observed for more frequent past episodes, even when age, gender and severity are taken into account.

Keywords

Recurrent depressionLife eventsKindling
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Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , September 2006 , pp. 364 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier SAS 2006

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