Is the Comorbidity between Social Phobia and Panic Disorder Due to Familial Cotransmission or other Factors?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 574-582

  Horwath, Ewald ^a   Wolk, Susan I ^a   Goldstein, Risë B ^b   Wickramaratne, Priya ^a,b   Sobin, Christina ^a,b   Adams, Phillip ^a,b   Lish, Jennifer D ^c   Weissman, Myrna M ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychiatry College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANIC; PHOBIA; RELATIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0029014039     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1995.03950190056008     Document Type: Article

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