Update on Research and Treatment of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

Harvard Review of Psychiatry - Tập 17 Số 2 - Trang 120-137 - 2009
Joanne Cunningham1, Kimberly A. Yonkers2,1, Shaughn O’Brien3,4, Elias Eriksson5
1Departments of Psychiatry, Yale University
2Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Services, Yale University
3Academic Obstetrics &amp
4Gynaecology, Keele University School of Medicine, United Kingdom
5Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Göteberg University, Sweden

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