The Epidemiology of Mood Disorders

Mood Disorders: Clinical Management and Research Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-34

  Jacobi, Frank ^a   Rosi, Simone ^b   Faravelli, Carlo ^b   Goodwin, Renee ^c   Arbabzadeh Bouchez, Saena ^d   Lépine, Jean Pierre ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Department of Neurology and Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^d HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

Author keywords

CIDI surveys; Epidemiological community surveys; Epidemiology of mood disorders; European Study of Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD); Operationalized diagnostic criteria; Risk factors and mental disorders; Third generation epidemiological surveys; True risk factors; Understanding mood disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746257833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470094281.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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