Gender differences among patients with a single depressive episode

Psychopathology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 159-169

  Bukh, Jens D ^a   Bock, Camilla ^a   Vinberg, Maj ^a   Gether, Ulrik ^b   Kessing, Lars Vedel ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Depression; Gender; Personality; Personality disorders; Stressful life events

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77449102509     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000288638     Document Type: Article

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