Cognitive ability in early adulthood and risk of 5 specific psychiatric disorders in middle age: The Vietnam Experience Study

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1410-1418

  Gale, Catharine R ^a   Deary, Ian J ^b   Boyle, Stephen H ^c   Barefoot, John ^c   Mortensen, Laust H ^d   Batty, G David ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VETERANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 57149083471     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.65.12.1410     Document Type: Article

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