Multi-Dimensional Diagnosis,Individualized Therapy,and Management Technique for Major Depressive Disorder:Based on Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

Multi-dimensional Diagnosis,Individualized Therapy,and Management Technique for Major Depressive Disorder:Based on Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

Major Depressive Disorder is one of the most common mental diseases,which increases health-care costs and the financial burden to families and societies. Considering its complex clinical symptoms and diversity of comorbidity, depressive disorder's recognition，diagnosis，and antihistone are based on symptomatology,which is lack of multidimensional diagnosis technique based on clinical pathological characteristics,as well as lack of individualized therapy strategy based on quantified evaluation. Besides, other physical diseases，such as nervous system diseases, cardiovascular diseases，endocrine diseases, have the high comorbidity of depressive disorder. However，there is no precise diagnosis technique or standardized therapy strategy. With all those taken into consideration,our study is aimed to adopt E-mental health and m-Health to explore multi-dimensional diagnosis, individualized therapy and management technique based on molecular biology,nerve electrophysiology，and neuroimaging technology etc.

Four parts included in our study:

Part 1:The research, development and verification of indicators based on biomarkers and clinical characteristics to guide the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders

1. to screen biomarkers, to explore its pathophysiology, and to analyze the correlation between clinical subtypes/characteristics and biomarkers.
2. To differentiate the subtypes of depressive disorder（depression/underload, atypical, anxiety/somatization) based on clinical symptoms and clinical assessement.
3. To establish personalized therapy strategies,and to explore tool kits for diagnosis and treatment based on biomarkers and clinical characteristics.
4. to choose appropriate indicators to monitor therapy and side effect by collecting and analyzing blood/imaging/neuropsychological data.

Part 2: The development,transition and application of hierarchical model diagnostic technique for physical diseases combined with depressive disorder.

1. to recruit patients with physical diseases combined with depressive disorder, and explore potential biomarkers.
2. To chose appropriate therapy strategies based on measurement based care（MBC）, providing hierarchical model diagnostic technique for patients.
3. To weigh therapy efficiency and adverse effect among different medicine therapy groups.

Part3: The development and application of comprehensive prevention， diagnosis,and intervention model of depressive disorder.

1. To explore and establish online screening and assistant diagnosis system for patients with depressive disorder.
2. research ,development and application of intelligent e-MBC. Part 4: The development,transition and application of e-MBC sharing platform.

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 18-65 years;
• clinical diagnosis of major depressive disorder;
• 17-Hamilton Depression Scale>20;
• 14-Hamilton Anxiety Scale score<7;
• outpatient treatment;
• first episode;
• medication-naive;

Exclusion Criteria:

• clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder;
• any prescription or psychotropic medications in the past 4 week;
• serious medical or neurological illness;
• current pregnancy or breastfeeding.