Neuroendocrine response to fenfluramine challenge in boys: Associations with aggressive behavior and adverse rearing

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 839-846

  Pine, Daniel S ^a,b   Coplan, Jeremy D ^a,b   Wasserman, Gail A ^a,b   Miller, Laurie S ^a,b   Fried, Jane E ^a,b   Davies, Mark ^a,b   Cooper, Thomas B ^a   Greenhill, Laurence ^a,b   Shaffer, David ^a,b   Parsons, Bruce ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENFLURAMINE; PROLACTIN;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REARING; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030875934     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830210083010     Document Type: Article

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