Psychiatry Research
Volume 134, Issue 1 , Pages 11-25 , 30 March 2005

Affect-modulated startle in adults with childhood-onset depression: Relations to bipolar course and number of lifetime depressive episodes

  • Erika E. Forbes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 210 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Current address: Department of Psychiatry, WPIC E-719, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Tel.: +1 412 246 5871; fax: +1 412 246 5880.
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  • Anita Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, WPIC E-719, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    • ,
  • Jeffrey F. Cohn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 210 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
    • ,
  • Nathan A. Fox

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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  • Maria Kovacs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, WPIC E-719, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Received 16 August 2004 ,Revised 3 November 2004 ,Accepted 7 January 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.01.001

Psychiatry Research
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