Genetic and population perspectives an life events and depression

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 363-372

  Brown, G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031815592     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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