Childhood-Onset Dysthymic Disorder: Clinical Features and Prospective Naturalistic Outcome

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 365-374

  Kovacs, Maria ^a   Akiskal, Hagop S ^b   Gatsonis, Constantine ^c   Parrone, Phoebe L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; ONSET AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0028341155     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1994.03950050025003     Document Type: Article

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