Low CSF 5-HIAA level in high-lethality suicide attempters: Fact or artifact? (multiple letters)

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 375-376

  Franke, Leonara ^a   Uebelhack, Rald ^a   Müller Oerlinghausen, Bruno ^b   Mann, J John ^c   Placidi, Giovanni P A ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b German Medical Association   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID;

AGE; AGGRESSION; BODY HEIGHT; BORDERLINE STATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LETTER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0037101993     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01428-2     Document Type: Letter

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