Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8 , January 2012

Two-year outcomes in first-episode psychotic depression: The McLean–Harvard first-episode project

  • Mauricio Tohen

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, United States
    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, United States. Fax: +1 210 567 7829.
    • ,
  • Hari-Mandir K. Khalsa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Paola Salvatore

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States
    • Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy
    • ,
  • Eduard Vieta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States
    • Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, University of Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Caitlin Ravichandran

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Ross J. Baldessarini

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States

Received 17 June 2011 ,Revised 19 August 2011 ,Accepted 24 August 2011.

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PII: S0165-0327(11)00513-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.08.028

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 1-8 , January 2012

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