Stressful life events and major depression: Risk period, long-term contextual threat, and diagnostic specificity

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 661-669

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a,b,c   Karkowski, Laura M ^a,b   Prescott, Carol A ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Virginia Inst Psychiat Behav G Virginia Commonwealth University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STRESS; THREAT; TWINS;

EID: 0032434408     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199811000-00001     Document Type: Article

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