Understanding of the modern concept of remission (RM) should take account of its multidimensional structure, which includes clinical (severity and nature of residual symptomatology, clinical type of RM), subjective (social functioning and self-assessment of patients’ status), and integral (stability) characteristics, which have complex relationships with each other. Studies of 385 patients during pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy showed that the leading role in this structure is played by the clinical types of RM (complete, monosymptomatic, and polysymptomatic, and remission with the structure of minor depression), which on the basis of the dimensional approach creates a spectrum from the complete absence of any symptoms to subsyndromal depression. Clinical types of RM are defied by subjective and integral characteristics.
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Translated from Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii imeni S. S. Korsakova, Vol. 113, No. 11, Iss. 2, Depression, pp. 14–22, November, 2013.
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Kanaeva, L.S. The Modern Concept of Remission in Nonpsychotic Depressive Disorders. Neurosci Behav Physi 45, 384–392 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-015-0086-8
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