Prevalence of anger attacks in depressive and anxiety disorders: Implications for their construct?

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-174

  Painuly, Nitesh Prakash ^a   Grover, Sandeep ^a   Gupta, Nitin ^a   Mattoo, Surendra K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

anger attacks; anxiety; depression; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANIC; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 79952918108     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02177.x     Document Type: Article

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