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MelancholiaGordon Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 162:1066. 2005
Identifying antecedent and illness course variables differentiating bipolar I, bipolar II and unipolar disordersGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2031, Australia Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia Electronic address
J Affect Disord 148:202-9. 2013..We sought to identify illness antecedents and correlates that may assist their differentiation and complement clinical symptoms...
Does age impact on rating melancholic and non-melancholic depressive symptoms?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Road, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
J Affect Disord 147:318-24. 2013..One possible factor is age, and its possible influence led to the current study examining the impact of age on the reporting of melancholic and non-melancholic depressive symptoms...
Bipolar depression: prototypically melancholic in its clinical featuresGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2031, Australia
J Affect Disord 147:331-7. 2013..While there have been some relatively consistent individual features identified, no clear clinical phenotype has been defined for bipolar depression...
Do practitioners managing mood disorders work to a sub-typing or a 'one size fits all' model?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 21:17-21. 2013..To assess whether psychiatrists in the community operate to a sub-typing model of mood disorders when choosing psychotropic medications...
Out of the darkness: the impact of a mood disorder over timeGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 20:487-91. 2012..Being diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder has a significant impact on an individual's life. This paper reports data examining how patients view having had such a condition...
Through a glass darkly: the disutility of the DSM nosology of depressive disordersGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Can J Psychiatry 51:879-86. 2006..To demonstrate that the dimension-weighted DSM-IV model for classifying the depressive disorders lacks utility...
Properties of the temperament and character inventory in a Chinese sampleG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 108:367-73. 2003..To determine the influence of language and culture on the temperament and character (TCI) measure in a Chinese sample...
Comorbidities in bipolar disorder: models and managementGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Med J Aust 193:S18-20. 2010..Successful management of bipolar disorder often involves the development of a wellbeing plan that addresses comorbid issues iterative to the bipolar disorder...
Do the old psychostimulant drugs have a role in managing treatment-resistant depression?G Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 121:308-14. 2010....
Examination stress in Singapore primary schoolchildren: how compliance by subjects can impact on study resultsG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of NSW, and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 108:239-43. 2003....
Clinical differentiation of bipolar II disorder from personality-based "emotional dysregulation" conditionsGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 133:16-21. 2011..This paper provides a clinical vignette and then offers some indicative parameters that might assist differentiation...
Depression in the Chinese: the impact of acculturationGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Psychol Med 35:1475-83. 2005..We report a study from a western region examining the impact of acculturation on depression to clarify the role of cultural factors...
Relationship between self-reported childhood behavioral inhibition and lifetime anxiety disorders in a clinical sampleGemma L Gladstone
University of New South Wales and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Depress Anxiety 22:103-13. 2005..Findings are discussed in light of the existing risk-factor literature and support the hypothesis that an early inhibited temperament may be a significant precursor to later anxiety, especially social anxiety disorder...
Predicting the depression researcher: initial investigationsGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 12:404-5. 2004
Atypical depression: a valid subtype?Gordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and the Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
J Clin Psychiatry 68:18-22. 2007....
Identifying "paradigm failures" contributing to treatment-resistant depressionG B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 87:185-91. 2005..quot;Treatment resistant depression" is likely to emerge from a number of factors, including application of the wrong diagnostic and treatment models...
Bipolar disorder: assessment and managementGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 36:240-3. 2007..General practitioners are increasingly aware of the bipolar disorders and of being required to adopt a management role...
On the breeding of coauthors: just call me AlGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 187:650-1. 2007
Clinical and personality correlates of a new measure of depression: a general practice studyGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Clinic, Black Dog Institute, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:104-9. 2003..We therefore test the usefulness of a measure developed in a sample of medically ill hospitalized patients...
Valid assessment of the clinical features of depression by relatives appears to slip under the RADARGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Black Dog Institute, Price of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:92-6. 2003..We report on the development of an observational measure designed for completion by relatives, the Recent Appearance of Depression Assessed by Relatives (RADAR), and consider its validity...
SSRIs as mood stabilizers for Bipolar II Disorder? A proof of concept studyGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 92:205-14. 2006..We examined whether SSRIs are a mood stabilizer for Bipolar II Disorder...
Measurement of well-being in the workplace: the development of the work well-being questionnaireGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Nerv Ment Dis 199:394-7. 2011..The refined measure should enable individuals and employers to quantify the levels of support and well-being provided by employing organizations...
Discriminating melancholic and non-melancholic depression by prototypic clinical featuresGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 144:199-207. 2013..We pursue its prototypic clinical pattern to determine if this advances its delineation...
Predictors of 1-year outcome in depressionG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:56-64. 2000..Second, we assessed baseline predictors of 1-year outcome and recovery status. Third, we examined the extent to which predictors showed consistency across the variable definitions of outcome and recovery...
Is depression a chronic illness? Parker opposes the motionGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Chronic Illn 1:107-12. 2005
A comparative mental health literacy survey of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in SingaporeG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:627-36. 2000..Second, to compare the psychiatrists' judgements with those of Australian psychiatrists...
Evaluating the utility of a bipolar self-test screening measureGordon Parker
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 19:317-20. 2011..To detail the methodology of an online study designed to test the utility of a bipolar self-test screening measure...
A diagnostic profile of those who return a false positive assignment on bipolar screening measuresGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Affect Disord 141:34-9. 2012..Our aim was to identify the diagnostic profile of patients classified as 'false positives' on two bipolar screening measures; the Mood Swings Questionnaire (MSQ) and the Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ)...
CyclothymiaGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Depress Anxiety 29:487-94. 2012....
Examining the utility of the Black Dog Institute's online Mood Assessment Program in clinical practiceGordon Parker
University of NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 20:49-52. 2012..To examine qualitatively the usefulness of the Mood Assessment Program (MAP) 12 months after an online version for patients was made available for access by Australian health practitioners...
Is context everything to the definition of clinical depression? A test of the Horwitz and Wakefield postulateG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 136:1034-8. 2012....
The 'magic button question' for those with a mood disorder--would they wish to re-live their condition?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales, and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
J Affect Disord 136:419-24. 2012..To determine any positive aspects of living with a clinical mood disorder, and indirectly address the question--"If you could live your life again, would you press the 'magic button' to experience life without a mood disorder?"..
Does testing for bimodality clarify whether the bipolar disorders are categorically or dimensionally different to unipolar depressive disorders?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Affect Disord 137:135-8. 2012..Two previous studies have failed to demonstrate bimodality. We undertook a third study...
Mood effects of the amino acids tryptophan and tyrosine: 'Food for Thought' IIIG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 124:417-26. 2011....
Medical student observations on a career in psychiatryTessa Wigney
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:726-31. 2007..Interest in training in psychiatry appears to be in decline. To pursue reasons why a career in psychiatry is not regarded as an attractive option for trainees, attitudes of senior Australian medical students were surveyed...
What is the place of psychological treatments in mood disorders?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 10:137-45. 2007....
Judged effectiveness of differing antidepressant strategies by those with clinical depressionGordon Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:32-7. 2007....
Treating depression with the evidence-based psychotherapies: a critique of the evidenceG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 115:352-9. 2007..While Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) have been positioned as first-line evidence-based treatments for depression, we suggest that limitations to the 'evidence' deserve wider appreciation...
Lower rates of depression in westernised Chinese in the USGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Affect Disord 104:175-8. 2007..We therefore sought to determine whether reported rates of depressive disorders differ in resident Chinese and matched non-Chinese controls in a large US community survey...
The Black Dog Institute Depression Clinic: a subtyping model in practiceGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 14:300-3. 2006..This paper describes clinic nuances and the impact on diagnosis and management for the first 100 patients assessed...
Omega-3 fatty acids and mood disordersGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2031, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 163:969-78. 2006....
Distinguishing bipolar and unipolar disorders: an isomer modelGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 96:67-73. 2006....
Depression and help-seeking in a western sample of 'highly acculturated' Chinese and controlsGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 94:239-42. 2006..It is commonly reported that "the Chinese" have low rates of depression, partially reflecting a greater tendency to somatize and to be less likely to seek help...
Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression? The need to define its ecological nicheGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute, Australia
J Affect Disord 95:1-11. 2006..Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has long been viewed as an efficacious treatment for depression, with a large number of published studies allowing its efficacy and utility to be considered closely...
A spectrum model for depressive conditions: extrapolation of the atypical depression prototypeGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Affect Disord 103:155-63. 2007..We aimed to pursue the relevance and define the boundaries of a 'spectrum model' for the depressive disorders, where definition is based on personality style, clinical pattern and coping repertoires...
Is depression overdiagnosed? YesGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
BMJ 335:328. 2007
Personality and self-reported treatment effectiveness in depressionGordon Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:518-25. 2009....
Specificity of depression following an acute coronary syndrome to an adverse outcome extends over five yearsGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Psychiatry Res 185:347-52. 2011....
Will a new genotyping test help the clinician predict response to antidepressant drugs?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 18:413-6. 2010..The aim of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy of a new genotyping test (Antidepressant PredictAR) in assigning patients as likely 'poor', 'rapid' or 'normal' metabolizers of antidepressant drugs...
Tolerance to desvenlafaxine in rapid metabolizing depressed patientsGordon B Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 26:84-7. 2011....
Evaluating the first 1000 patients referred to a specialist depression clinic: a case for tertiary referral facilitiesG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 131:52-8. 2011..We report on the assessment and outcome of the first 1000 patients referred to a tertiary referral depression clinic established to assess the utility of diagnostic sub-typing on clinical course of illness...
Is bipolar II depression phenotypically distinctive?G B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 120:446-55. 2009..We examine the depressive symptom profile of bipolar II disorder patients compared with a comparator (composite) group of those with unipolar depression, with stratification by melancholic and non-melancholic subtypes...
The impact of detecting bipolar disorder in previously diagnosed unipolar patients at a specialist depression clinicGordon Parker
Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Nerv Ment Dis 199:419-22. 2011..Future studies examining the impact of diagnosing a bipolar disorder would therefore benefit from the close consideration of the optimal control group or control strategy...
GAD is good? Generalized anxiety disorder predicts a superior five-year outcome following an acute coronary syndromeGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Hospital Rd, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Psychiatry Res 188:383-9. 2011....
Gender differences in depressionGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Int Rev Psychiatry 22:429-36. 2010..Finally, the impact of gender on response to differing antidepressant therapies is considered briefly...
Management of depression by general practitioners: impact of physician genderGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:355-9. 2009..The aim of the present study was to determine whether anecdotal claims of gender differences in the treatment of depression by general practitioners (GPs) existed in practice...
Atypical depression: retrospective self-reporting of treatment effectivenessG Parker
Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 120:213-21. 2009..This study compares ratings of effectiveness for a range of treatments, amongst depressed subjects with and without atypical features...
Chocolate craving when depressed: a personality markerGordon Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 191:351-2. 2007..The simple question of depression-associated chocolate craving appeared an efficient discriminator of DSM-IV atypical depression symptoms...
Screening for bipolar disorder: the utility and comparative properties of the MSS and MDQ measuresGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Affect Disord 109:83-9. 2008..Our objective was to further determine the diagnostic utility of the Mood Swings Survey (MSS) in distinguishing bipolar and unipolar disorders, and draw comparisons between this measure and the widely-used Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)...
Quantified superiority of cognitive behaviour therapy to antidepressant drugs: a challenge to an earlier meta-analysisG B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 118:91-7. 2008..The study aimed to review the conclusion of a previously published meta-analysis which quantified distinct superiority of cognitive therapy to antidepressant drug-therapy (P < 0.0001)...
The Mood Assessment Program: a computerised diagnostic tool for deriving management plans for mood disordersGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S126-8. 2008..The program will be rolled out over the next 6 months as a formal evaluative tool for wide assessment and application by general practitioners, and subsequently to assist a broader range of health practitioners...
Timing is everything: the onset of depression and acute coronary syndrome outcomeGordon B Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Biol Psychiatry 64:660-6. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the timing of the depressive episode and 1-year cardiovascular outcome in recruited patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS)...
Alert: inaccurate lithium assay resultsGordon Parker
University of New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:643-5. 2008..At that latter time the spuriously low lithium levels reported on the assay risked dispelling any clinical suspicion of lithium toxicity, although toxicity was later confirmed...
How should mood disorders be modelled?Gordon Parker
Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:841-50. 2008..In essence, identifying syndromal 'fuzzy sets' from phenotypic and aetiological clustering, a model that occurs in the rest of medicine...
Measuring melancholia: the utility of a prototypic symptom approachG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Psychol Med 39:989-98. 2009....
Bipolar II disorder--diagnostic and management lessons for health practitioners from a coronial inquestGordon B Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 195:81-3. 2011....
Assessing personality traits associated with depression: the utility of a tiered modelGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Psychol Med 36:1131-9. 2006..We report the psychometric properties of the derived Temperament and Personality (T and P) questionnaire, as well as a pilot study examining its capacity to differentiate over-represented personality traits in those with depression...
Recognition of depressive symptoms by Chinese subjects: the influence of acculturation and depressive experienceGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 93:141-7. 2006..This study examined the influence of acculturation and personal depressive experience on recognition of depressive symptoms in a sample of Chinese subjects and controls in a western region...
Assessing outcome in community mental health patients: a comparative analysis of measuresGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Int J Soc Psychiatry 48:11-9. 2002..Overall improvement in that sample allowed for comparative analyses of the key measures in terms of their ability to measure and to predict outcome...
Atypical depression: a reappraisalGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 159:1470-9. 2002..The study evaluated the DSM-IV definition of the atypical features specifier for a major depressive episode in major depressive disorder...
A question of style: refining the dimensions of personality disorder styleG Parker
School of Psychiatry and the Mood Disorders Unit, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Pers Disord 15:300-18. 2001..The study should assist measurement of individual PDs by identifying items and constructs that build to more homogeneous dimensions that define lower-order and higher-order PD traits...
Defining disordered personality functioningGordon Parker
Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Pers Disord 16:503-22. 2002..We review candidate constructs for the definition of disordered functioning and consider how constructs might be refined in subsequent research and lead to applied measures...
Mental health literacy beliefs. A comparison of psychiatric trained nurses and enrolled nurses in SingaporeSoo Gim Yeo
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 41:34-41. 2003..Results demonstrate the effect of greater psychiatric education and training, received by psychiatric trained nurses, on mental health literacy...
Which antidepressants flick the switch?Gordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Dis orders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Randwick 2031, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:464-8. 2003..This overview considers the capacity of antidepressant drugs, and particularly the new classes, to induce manic switching in depressed patients...
Progressing a spectrum model for defining non-melancholic depressionG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 111:139-43. 2005..To further develop a 'spectrum model' for non-melancholic disorders that encompasses underlying personality styles and clinical patterning...
Critique of the guidelines for the treatment of depression: flaws in the constructionGordon Parker
University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:885-90. 2004..To examine the likely utility of the recently published Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of depression...
Influence of symptom attribution on reporting depression and recourse to treatmentGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Dis orders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Randwick 2031, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:469-74. 2003..A Bristol general practice study demonstrated the extent to which patients' attribution style influences psychological diagnostic case rates. We pursue this issue and several implications in this Australian study...
Capacity of the 10-item Depression in the Medically Ill screening measure to detect depression 'caseness' in psychiatric out-patientsGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Psychiatry Res 127:283-7. 2004..Analyses suggest useful items for clinicians to determine depression caseness status...
An Australian validation study of the temperament and character inventoryG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 108:359-66. 2003..To assess the validity of the temperament and character inventory (TCI) measure in an Australian sample...
Modelling late-life depressionGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW 2031, Sydney, Australia
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:1102-9. 2003..To determine if we could find support for a three-class depression sub-typing model (and identify differentiating constituent clinical features) in a sample of elderly depressed patients...
Measuring disordered personality functioning: to love and to work reprisedG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Syndey, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:230-9. 2004..Current limitations to diagnosing and measuring the personality disorders encouraged a set of studies seeking to provide an alternate approach to modeling and measuring disordered personality function...
Treatment-resistant depression: when antidepressant drug intolerance may indicate food intoleranceGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:263-5. 2002..To describe a patient with food intolerance probably contributing to depressive symptoms, intolerance to psychotropic medication and treatment resistance...
Olanzapine augmentation in the treatment of melancholia: the trajectory of improvement in rapid respondersG Parker
Mood Disorders Unit and School of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 17:87-9. 2002..Such findings may assist in an understanding of the mechanisms underlying augmentation with atypical neuroleptic drugs...
Are atypical antipsychotic drugs also atypical antidepressants?G Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales 2031, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 35:631-8. 2001..To report a case series and review the psychopharmacology of the neuroleptic drugs to suggest that the atypical antipsychotic drugs may have an antidepressant action, at least for those patients with the melancholic subtype...
Sub-grouping non-melancholic major depression using both clinical and aetiological featuresG Parker
Senior Psychiatry Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 33:217-25. 1999..Here, we address the same objective but combine both sets of variables, and contrast the combined solution with each of the contributing ones...
Are the newer antidepressant drugs as effective as established physical treatments? Results from an Australasian clinical panel reviewG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 33:874-81. 1999....
Costing depression and its management: an Australian studyG Parker
School of Psychiatry, The University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:290-9. 2000..To examine the cost impact of referral to a Mood Disorders Unit (MDU), by comparing pre-service and post-service costs, and MDU and control samples...
Twelve-month outcome of nonmelancholic depressive subjects: refinement of subgroups by examination of trajectoriesG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ann Clin Psychiatry 12:219-25. 2000..Thus, clinical definition does have predictive utility in such a group...
How long does it take for antidepressant therapies to act?G Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Psychiatry Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:65-70. 2000..To review the proposition that antidepressants have a delayed onset of action by employing measurement and analytic strategies that overcome problems confounding interpretation of many efficacy studies...
Explicating links between acute coronary syndrome and depression: study design and methodsGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:245-52. 2006....
The development of a brief screening measure of emotional distress in childrenG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42:221-5. 2001..Here, girls and boys received identical total scores, scores were also independent of the number of children in the family and of ordinal position, and mothers returned higher scores than fathers...
Sleeping in? The impact of age and depressive sub-type on hypersomniaG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Affect Disord 90:73-6. 2006..While early morning wakening is held to be a classic feature of melancholia, we investigate the clinical observation that young patients with melancholia and bipolar depression tend to be more likely to report hypersomnia...
Evaluating treatments for the mood disorders: time for the evidence to get realGordon Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:408-14. 2004..To detail limitations to level I evidence derived from randomised controlled trials of antidepressant treatments and which is held to be fundamental to the development and validity of treatment guidelines...
Adolescent depression: a reviewG Parker
Mood Disorders Unit, School of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales 2031, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 35:572-80. 2001..To review the characteristic clinical, illness course and risk factors to adolescent depression...
Depression in the planet's largest ethnic group: the ChineseG Parker
Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Sydney, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 158:857-64. 2001..to deny depression or express it somatically, examined the possible determinants of those characteristics, and explored implications of the findings for the diagnosis and management of depression in China and for psychiatry in the WEST:..
Self-harming in depressed patients: pattern analysisG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:899-906. 2005..As deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a common concomitant of depressive disorders, we undertook a study examining the relevance of possible determinants and correlates of DSH...
Predicting mental health and well-being in adulthoodKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry and Black Dog University, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Nerv Ment Dis 198:85-90. 2010..This article reinforces the need for precise conception(s) of mental well-being, allowing objective measures to guide future research...
Cross-cultural validation of the DMI-10 measure of state depression: the development of a Chinese language versionBibiana Chan
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:20-5. 2007..The Chinese DMI-10 should prove useful as a tool in cross-cultural research to understand the Chinese experience of depression. The findings of this study have methodological implications for cross-cultural research on depression...
Distinguishing early and late onset non-melancholic unipolar depressionGordon Parker
Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, and School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick 2031, Australia
J Affect Disord 74:131-8. 2003..Early onset depression is indicative of a poor prognosis, both in terms of response to interventions and in regard to chronicity and disability...
Screening for Depression in the Medically Ill: a comparison of self-report measures, clinician judgment, and DSM-IV diagnosesKay Wilhelm
St Vincent s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Psychosomatics 45:461-9. 2004..The Depression in the Medically Ill scale was slightly superior to the Beck Depression Inventory for Primary Care in its relationship to clinicians' judgments of clinical depression caseness...
