Journal article
Suicide and the dexamethasone suppression test in unipolar depression
The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.138(8), pp.1120-1121
08/1981
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.138.8.1120
PMID: 7258395
Abstract
The authors studied 243 inpatients with unipolar depression who had received DSTs. Of 205 patients with primary depression, the 4 who later committed suicide were among 96 with abnormal DST results; 1 patients with secondary depression committed suicide despite a normal DST result. The authors suggest that hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal dysfunction is associated with a type of primary depressive illness that is more likely to involve suicide than are other types.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Suicide and the dexamethasone suppression test in unipolar depression
- Creators
- W CoryellM A Schlesser
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of psychiatry, Vol.138(8), pp.1120-1121
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1176/ajp.138.8.1120
- PMID
- 7258395
- ISSN
- 0002-953X
- eISSN
- 1535-7228
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/1981
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003443402771
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