Women's mental health research: The emergence of a biomedical field

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 135-160

  Blehar, Mary C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hormones; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALOSETRON; ESTROGEN; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SEX HORMONE; TEGASEROD; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVISM; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FUNDING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BACKGROUND; SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH; SEX FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33744454386     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.2.022305.095344     Document Type: Review

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