Definition of Retarded depression

1. Noun. A state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action.


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Literary usage of Retarded depression

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1915)
"Hoch uses as an illustration the type of retarded depression in women apparently precipitated by the death of the mother. "The content of these depressions ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1906)
"Subject, 8., retarded depression. from his work is that the "normal rate for most rapid voluntary movement of the right wrist was found to average 8.5 taps ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"A manic-depressive personality would have developed a retarded depression, but in this case the subject developed a crude infantile sexual trend. ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"A manic-depressive personality would have developed a retarded depression, but in this case the subject developed a crude infantile sexual trend. ..."

5. Treatment of Depression edited by Cynthia D. Mulrow (2000)
"Rampollo L, Nicoletti G, Raffaele R. Dopaminergic hypothesis for retarded depression: A symptom profile for predicting therapeutical responses. ..."

6. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"In large doses, however, a paralyzing effect is obtained, thought is retarded, depression occurs and insomnia becomes more marked. ..."

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