Accounts of suicidality in the huntington disease community

Omega (United States)

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 317-334

  Halpin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIFE EVENT; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84866144809     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.65.4.e     Document Type: Article

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