The properties and utility of the CORE measure of melancholia

The CORE measure was designed to assess a central feature of melancholia - signs of psychomotor disturbance (PMD) - and so provide an alternate non-symptom based measure of melancholia or of its probability. This review evaluates development and application studies undertaken over the last 25 years to consider how well it has met its original objectives. All studies published using the CORE measure as either the only or an adjunctive measure of...