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Need for alternative ways of phenotyping of mood, anxiety, and somatoform disorders in biological research.
Progress in brain research - 1 Jan 2008
Veen G, van Vliet I M, de Rijk R H, Zitman F G
Abstract excerpt
Variation in psychiatric symptomatology is continuous and does not coalesce into fairly well-defined categorical DSM-IV clusters. As a consequence, DSM-IV fails to meaningfully integrate information generated by neuroendocrine research. Continuous psychological dimensions selected for their predictiveness with respect to endophenotypes, as biological intermediate factors, are proposed to be the best ways in...
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