Psychiatry Research
Volume 134, Issue 1 , Pages 85-91 , 30 March 2005

Marked depression and anxiety in patients with functional dysphonia

  • Ulrike Willinger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Phoniatrics and Logopedics, University–Ear, Nose, and Throat–Clinic, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 3335; fax: +43 1 40400 3332.
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  • Sabine Völkl-Kernstock

      Affiliations

    • University Clinic for Neuropsychiatry of Children and Adolescents, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • Harald Nikolaus Aschauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Psychiatry, University Hospital for Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria

Received 27 May 2002 ,Revised 4 June 2003 ,Accepted 16 July 2003.

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PII: S0165-1781(05)00020-X

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2003.07.007

Psychiatry Research
Volume 134, Issue 1 , Pages 85-91 , 30 March 2005

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