"Excessive tears": a diagnostic sign for cocaine-induced mood disorder?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 252-256

  Zarkowski, Paul ^a   Pasic, Jagoda ^a   Russo, Joan ^a   Roy Byrne, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; DEPRESSION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXCESSIVE TEARFULNESS; FACE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TEAR FLOW; URINE;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BENZODIAZEPINES; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CRYING; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUICIDE;

EID: 34147127388     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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