Clinical characteristics of major depression that predict risk of depression in relatives.
Open Access
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 56 (4), 322-327
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.4.322
Abstract
MAJOR DEPRESSION (MD) is both etiologically heterogeneous, with a wide range of risk factors,1-7 and clinically heterogeneous, presenting with varying patterns of symptoms, ages at onset, severity, duration, and recurrence. This article attempts to clarify further the relationship between etiologic and clinical heterogeneity in MD.Keywords
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