Mathematical coupling and the true role of baseline severity in acute mania trials

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 850-

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a   Kontis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Psychiatric Hospital of Attika Dafni   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MANIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84855897916     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.234     Document Type: Letter

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