Since psychiatric disorders differ throughout the lifespan in phenomenology, course, and treatment, there is need for study of comorbidity of such disorders in geriatric populations. Prior findings of low prevalence of comorbid late-life anxiety disorders in depressed elderly are now disputed by rec
The biological origin of depression in later life
β Scribed by Barbara Beats
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 510 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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