Depression in children and adolescents: Does gender make a difference?

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 108-114

  Weller, Elizabeth B ^b   Kloos, Angelica ^a   Kang, Joon ^b   Weller, Ronald A ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG HYDROXYLATION; DRUG POTENCY; DYSPEPSIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENDER DYSPHORIA; GROUPS BY AGE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICTURITION DISORDER; NAUSEA; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; URINARY FREQUENCY; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33645561288     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-006-0007-1     Document Type: Review

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