Oxytocin plasma levels in psychiatric patients with and without recent suicide attempt

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-62

  Deisenhammer, Eberhard A ^a   Hofer, Susanne ^a   Schwitzer, Oliver ^a   Defrancesco, Michaela ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Wildt, Ludwig ^a   Hinterhuber, Hartmann ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biological marker; Oxytocin; Suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL PATIENT; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; OXYTOCIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84869888710     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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