Differential validity of informant-based diagnoses of dementia and depression in index subjects and in their first-degree relatives

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 510-513

  Heun, R ^a   Muller H ^a   Papassotiropoulos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FAMILY HISTORY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; RELATIVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0031757223     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050087     Document Type: Article

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