Cognitive ability in childhood and the chronicity and suicidality of depression

Galen Chin-Lun Hung1, Stefanie A Pietras1, Hannah Carliner1

  • 1Galen Chin-Lun Hung, MD, ScM, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Stefanie A. Pietras, SM, Mathematica Policy Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Hannah Carliner, ScD, MPH, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA; Laurie Martin, ScD, MPH, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA; Larry J. Seidman, PhD, Massachusetts Mental Health Center Public Psychiatry Division of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Stephen L. Buka, ScD, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Stephen E. Gilman, ScD, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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