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* In 1996, Gordon Parker and Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic described Melancholia as a specific disorder of movement and mood.

A Disorder of Movement and Mood, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

More recently, MA Taylor and M Fink crystallized the present image of melancholia as a systemic disorder that is identifiable by depressive mood rating scales, verified by the present of abnormal cortisol metabolism ( abnormal dexamethasone suppression test ), and validated by rapid and effective remission with ECT or tricyclic antidepressant agents.

It has many forms, including retarded depression, psychotic depression, post-partum depression and psychosis, abnormal bereavement.