Subthreshold depression in the elderly: Qualitative or quantitative distinction?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 32-38

  Geiselman, Bernhard ^a,b   Bauer, Michael ^a,b  

^a BfA Klinik Seehof   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GUILT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BERLIN; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0034096553     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(00)80006-1     Document Type: Article

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