Revisiting the Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression: An exploratory study

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a   Gonda, Xenia ^b,c   Rihmer, Zoltan ^b   Fokas, Costas ^a   Iacovides, Apostolos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Kutvolgyi Clinical Center   (Hungary)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVENING DOSAGE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SLEEP; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 57149127231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-7-22     Document Type: Article

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