Obesity comorbidity in unipolar major depressive disorder: Refining the core phenotype

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1119-1124

  Levitan, Robert D ^a,b   Davis, Caroline ^c   Kaplan, Allan S ^a,b   Arenovich, Tamara ^a,b   Phillips, D I W ^d   Ravindran, Arun V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL DEPRESSION; BODY MASS; CLASSIC DEPRESSION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DSM-IV; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDIFFERENTIATED DEPRESSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865702720     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.11m07394     Document Type: Article

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