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Volume 349:1868-1869 November 6, 2003 Number 19
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Childhood Brain Tumors and Depressive Disorders

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To the Editor: Ross et al. (Aug. 14 issue)1 suggest that a history of brain tumor in childhood predisposes patients to subsequent psychosis but not to major depression. This result is at odds with our experience that depressive disorders are common in survivors of brain tumors. The observation by Ross et al. might be due to the fact that (according to the International Classification of Diseases, 8th Revision2) a diagnosis of depressive disorder is usually not made in the presence of organic brain disease. In patients with a history of brain tumor, organic affective disorder tends to be diagnosed, . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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