Alcoholism and Seasonal Affective Disorder

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-56

  Sher, Leo ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INDUCED DEPRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT REFERRAL; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

EID: 0347597737     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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