Ethnicity and variability of psychotic symptoms

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-228

  Vega, William A ^a   Lewis Fernández, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELUSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 49249098730     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-008-0037-y     Document Type: Review

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