The pathoplasticity of dysphoric episodes: Differential impact of stressful life events on the pattern of depressive symptom inter-correlations

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 957-965

  Cramer, A O J ^a   Borsboom, D ^a   Aggen, S H ^b,c   Kendler, K S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common cause hypothesis; dysphoric episode; network hypothesis; stressful life events

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TWINS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84859244140     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329171100211X     Document Type: Article

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