A follow-up study of first episode major depressive disorder. Impairment in inhibition and semantic fluency-potential predictors for relapse?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Schmid, Marit T ^a,b   Hammar, Åsa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Executive function; First episode major depression; Follow up; Inhibition; Relapse; Semantic fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885356166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00633     Document Type: Article

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