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Rapid Communication| Volume 26, ISSUE 6, P643-646, October 1989

Sensation-seeking scale scores in treated geriatric depressives and controls

  • Robert C. Young
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    Affiliations
    From the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and Division of Geriatric Services, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, New YorkU.S.A.
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  • Robert C. Abrams
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and Division of Geriatric Services, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, New YorkU.S.A.
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  • George S. Alexopoulos
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and Division of Geriatric Services, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, New YorkU.S.A.
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  • Richard Shindledecker
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    From the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and Division of Geriatric Services, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, White Plains, New YorkU.S.A.
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗ Supported in part by The Xerox and Greenwall Foundations. Address reprint requests to Dr. Young, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, New York 10605.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(89)90092-9
Sensation-seeking scale scores in treated geriatric depressives and controls
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      Publication history

      Received in revised form: March 17, 1989
      Received: October 28, 1988

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(89)90092-9

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      © 1989 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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