A prospective 12-year study of subsyndromal and syndromal depressive symptoms in unipolar major depressive disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 694-700

  Judd, Lewis L ^a   Akiskal, Hagop S ^a,b,c   Maser, Jack D ^d   Zeller, Pamela J ^a   Endicott, Jean ^e   Coryell, William ^g   Paulus, Martin P ^a,b   Kunovac, Jelena L ^a   Leon, Andrew C ^f   Mueller, Timothy I ^h   Rice, John A ^h   Keller, Martin B ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b S Diego Vet Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^c National Institute of Mental Health ^*

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031926899     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.8.694     Document Type: Article

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