Is clinical depression distinct from subthreshold depressive symptoms? A review of the continuity issue in depression research

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 189, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 498-506

  Solomon, Ari ^a   Haaga, David A F ^b   Arnow, Bruce A ^c  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; HUMANS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0034868623     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200108000-00002     Document Type: Review

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