Validity of DSM‐III‐R diagnosis by psychological autopsy: a comparison with clinician ante‐mortem diagnosis

By T. Kelly, J. Mann. 1996

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• Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists throughout Aging (2018, neutral): “To minimize confounders, using our psychological autopsy (Kelly and Mann, 1996), clinical reports, brain and blood toxicology and neuropathology exams, we excluded subjects with neuropsychiatric and chronic diseases, microvascular changes (lacunae) or other neuropathology, psychotropic drug use, low”
• Risk factors for suicide in later life. (2002, methodology): “Empirical research has demonstrated the validity of the PA method (Brent et al 1993a; Conner et al 2001a; Conner et al 2001b; Kelly and Mann 1996).”
• Hippocampal Granule Neuron Number and Dentate Gyrus Volume in Antidepressant-Treated and Untreated Major Depression (2013, methodology): “All cases and the control group underwent psychological autopsy, as described elsewhere (Boldrini et al, 2012; Kelly and Mann, 1996).”
• The Human Brain Revisited: Opportunities and Challenges in Postmortem Studies of Psychiatric Disorders (2002, methodology): “The value of this approach has been demonstrated by Kelly and Mann (1996) who found that comparison of research diagnoses made solely by psychological autopsy with diagnoses made antemortem by a clinician generated a kappa coefficient of 0.85 for Axis I diagnoses, a degree of agreement similar to…”
• Benzodiazepines And The Potential Trophic Effect Of Antidepressants On Dentate Gyrus Cells In Mood Disorders (2014, unknown): “, 2011), using a method validated for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) axis I and II diagnoses (Kelly and Mann, 1996).”