Resilience, stress, and mood disorders in old age

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-72

  Lavretsky, Helen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; ESCITALOPRAM;

AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; OPTIMISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; STRESS; WELLBEING;

EID: 84865766628     PISSN: 01988794     EISSN: 19444036     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1891/0198-8794.32.49     Document Type: Article

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