Seeing gray when feeling blue? Depression can be measured in the eye of the diseased

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-208

  Bubl, Emanuel ^a   Kern, Elena ^a   Ebert, Dieter ^a   Bach, Michael ^a,b   Tebartz Van Elst, Ludger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; depression; dopamine; Parkinson disease; pattern electroretinogram; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RETINA; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954215139     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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