Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 52, Issue 3 , Pages 261-264 , May 2011

Concordance between a simpler definition of major depressive disorder and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: an independent replication in an outpatient sample

  • Mark Zimmerman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Bayside Medical Center, Providence, RI 02905, USA.
    • ,
  • Benjamin O. Emmert-Aronson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Timothy A. Brown

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

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PII: S0010-440X(10)00100-8

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2010.07.009

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 52, Issue 3 , Pages 261-264 , May 2011

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