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Anxiety and Depression After Infectious Mononucleosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. Cadie ,
F. J. Nye  and
Peter Storey
M. Cadie
Affiliation:
Dept of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, S.W.17
F. J. Nye
Affiliation:
Communicable Disease Unit, St George's Hospital; Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool L9 7AL
Peter Storey*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, S.W.17
*
∗To whom requests for reprints should be sent.
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Summary

Thirty-six patients who had had infectious mononucleosis (IM) were followed up a year later and assessed by the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire and by interview or (in five cases) by postal questionnaire. The results support the view that IM leads to depression in a considerable number of cases, but in this series only women were so affected.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 128 , Issue 6 , June 1976 , pp. 559 - 561
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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