Elevated morning cortisol is a stratified populationlevel biomarker for major depression in boys only with high depressive symptoms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3638-3643

  Owens, Matthew ^a,b   Herbert, Joe ^c   Jones, Peter B ^a,b   Sahakian, Barbara J ^d   Wilkinson, Paul O ^a   Dunn, Valerie J ^a,b   Croudace, Timothy J ^e   Goodyer, Ian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENCE; GENDER DIFFERENCES;

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84895801781     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318786111     Document Type: Article

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