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Depression and the Newcastle Scales Their Relationship to Hamilton's Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. W. P. Carney  and
B. F. Sheffield
M. W. P. Carney
Affiliation:
Blackpool and Fylde Hospital Group and Lancaster Moor Hospital
B. F. Sheffield
Affiliation:
Blackpool and Fylde Hospital Group
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Little has been done to validate the so-called Newcastle scale for the differential diagnosis of endogenous and neurotic depression: neither are we aware of any validating work with the E.C.T. prediction scale or any investigation of the reliability of these indices (Carney, Roth and Garside, 1965). However, the diagnosis scale items, adapted for use with elderly patients (Post, 1970), and described as ‘highly relevant and clearly defined’, discriminated between deeply melancholic and more ‘neurotic’ patients; more recently Naylor and his associates (1971) found it to agree with clinical diagnosis in separating psychotic and neurotic depressives.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 560 , July 1972 , pp. 35 - 40
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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