Do attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and major depression share familial risk factors?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 533-541

  Faraone, Stephen V ^a,b,c,d,e   Biederman, Joseph ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Harvard Inst Psychiat E   (United States)

^d GRECC and Urology Divisions   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FAMILY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030762048     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199709000-00001     Document Type: Article

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