Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 426-435 , September 2007

Character and temperament in major depressive disorder and a highly anxious-retarded subtype derived from melancholia

  • Remco F.P. de Winter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, 2300 RC, The Netherlands
    • Parnassia Psycho-Medical Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Ron Wolterbeek

      Affiliations

    • Department Medical Statistics Leiden University, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Philip Spinhoven

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, 2300 RC, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychology Leiden University, Leiden, 2333 AK, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Frans G. Zitman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, 2300 RC, The Netherlands
    • Rivierduinen, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Jaap G. Goekoop

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, 2300 RC, The Netherlands
    • Rivierduinen, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Centre, Rivierduinen, 2342 AJ, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 71 890 7618; fax: +31 71 890 7501.

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 This study was supported by a grant from Wyeth, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands.

PII: S0010-440X(07)00047-8

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.04.002

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 5 , Pages 426-435 , September 2007

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