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Brief report| Volume 24, ISSUE 6, P693-696, October 1988

Dexamethasone suppression test status and severity of depression

  • James H. Meador-Woodruff
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    Address reprint requests to Dr. James H. Meador-Woodruff, Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical Center, 205 Washtenaw Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
    Affiliations
    From the Clinical Studies Unit of the University of Michigan Depression Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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  • John F. Greden
    Footnotes
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    From the Clinical Studies Unit of the University of Michigan Depression Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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  • Leon Grunhaus
    Affiliations
    From the Clinical Studies Unit of the University of Michigan Depression Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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  • Roger F. Haskett
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    From the Clinical Studies Unit of the University of Michigan Depression Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗ Supported in part by NIMH Grant RO1–40216 (J.F.G.) and the Department of Psychiatry and the Theophile Raphael Fund at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(88)90143-6
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      Received in revised form: February 29, 1988
      Received: December 21, 1987

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(88)90143-6

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