Role of stressful and traumatic life events in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-69

  Fontenelle, Leonardo F ^a,b,c   Cocchi, Luca ^c   Harrison, Ben J ^c   Miguel, Euripedes C ^d   Torres, Albina R ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

AGORAPHOBIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRESSFUL LIFE EVENT; TRAUMATIC LIFE EVENT; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

EID: 84856219468     PISSN: 17582008     EISSN: 17582016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/npy.10.1     Document Type: Review

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