Genetic Factors in Anxiety Disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1983, Pages 1085-1089

  Torgersen, Svenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PANIC; TWINS;

ADULT; AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0020639524     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1983.01790090047007     Document Type: Article

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