Cortisol secretion in adolescents with major depressive disorder

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 18-26

  Dahl, R ^c   Puig Antich J ^a,b,c   Ryan, N ^a,b,c   Nelson, B ^a,c   Novacenko, H ^a,b   Twomey, J ^c   Williamson, D ^c   Goetz, R ^a,b   Ambrosini, P J ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; cortisol; depression; stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; SLEEP; STRESS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024411536     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1989.tb01295.x     Document Type: Article

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