Relationships of age and axis I diagnoses in victims of completed suicide: A psychological autopsy study

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1001-1008

  Conwell, Yeates ^a   Duberstein, Paul R ^b   Cox, Christopher ^b   Herrmann, John H ^b   Forbes, Nicholas T ^b   Caine, Eric D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; VICTIM;

EID: 0029814764     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.153.8.1001     Document Type: Article

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