Sex Differences in Symptoms of Depression in Unrelated Individuals and Opposite-Sex Twin and Sibling Pairs
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Sex differences in symptoms of depression in unrelated individuals and opposite-sex twin and sibling pairs.
Diagnosis of a major depressive episode by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association requires 5 out of 9 symptoms to be present. Therefore, individuals may differ in the specific symptoms they experience and reach a diagnosis of depression via different pathways. It has been suggested that depressed women more often report symptoms of slee...
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عنوان ژورنال: Twin Research and Human Genetics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1832-4274,0000-0000
DOI: 10.1375/183242706778553507