Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2, Supplement 1 , Pages 39-47 , March 2000

Depressive spectrum diagnoses

  • Jules Angst

      Affiliations

    • From the Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, and the Genetic Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Jules Angst, M.D., Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; Mail Box 68, Genggstr 31, CH-8029 Zurich, Switzerland.
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  • Robert Sellar

      Affiliations

    • From the Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, and the Genetic Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
    • ,
  • Kathleen Ries Merikangas

      Affiliations

    • From the Zurich University Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, and the Genetic Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

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* Supported by Grant No. 32-33980.92 from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and in part by Research Scientist Development Award No. K02-DA 0093 (K.R.M.).

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
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