A decade into Facebook: where is psychiatry in the digital age?

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1087-1090

  Inkster, Becky ^a,b,d   Stillwell, David ^c   Kosinski, Michal ^e   Jones, Peter ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PEER COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TRENDS;

HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

EID: 84993960685     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30041-4     Document Type: Note

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