Proposed endophenotypes of dysthymia: evolutionary, clinical and pharmacogenomic considerations
@article{Niculescu2001ProposedEO,
title={Proposed endophenotypes of dysthymia: evolutionary, clinical and pharmacogenomic considerations},
author={Alexandru Niculescu and Hagop Souren Akiskal},
journal={Molecular Psychiatry},
year={2001},
volume={6},
pages={363-366},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1225537}
}A classification of dysthymias into anxious and anergic subtypes—and their putative association to bipolarity—is proposed, and neurochemical and neurophysiological substrates for the two subtypes are posited.
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