Gender Differences in Psychiatric Illness and Treatments
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 186 (12) , 769-775
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199812000-00005
Abstract
Controversy exists about the causation of gender differences long observed in the prevalence of mental disorders. Recent epidemiological, biochemical, and genetic research has shed further light upon both their etiologies and treatments. Both controversies and research are reviewed and critically examined.Keywords
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