Setting the bar: Athletes and vulnerability to mental illness

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-96

  Hughes, Lynette ^a   Leavey, Gerard ^a  

^a Northern Ireland Association of Mental Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EXERCISE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; WELLBEING;

ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84857086183     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.095976     Document Type: Review

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