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The role of fear and anxiety in the familial risk for major depression: a three-generation study.
Psychological medicine - 1 Nov 2008
Warner V, Wickramaratne P, Weissman M M
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BACKGROUND: The overlap between anxiety and major depressive disorder (MDD), the increased risk for depression and anxiety in offspring of depressed parents, the sequence of onset with anxiety preceding MDD, and anxiety as a predictor of depression are well established. The specificity of anxiety disorders in these relationships is unclear. This study, using a longitudinal high-risk design, examined whether...
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