Delayed neuropsychiatric effects of malaria in ghana

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 183-186

  Dugbartey, Anthony T ^a   Dugbartey, Margaret T ^b   Apedo, Matthew Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSESSION; PARANOIA; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOMATIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0031940493     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199803000-00007     Document Type: Article

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