Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:350-352
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Relationship of cognitive factors to CSF corticotropin-releasing hormone in depression
JA De Jong and A Roy
Division of Clinical and Biological Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD 20892.
The authors investigated the relationship between items on the Beck
Depression Inventory and CSF levels of corticotropin-releasing hormone
(CRH) in 17 depressed patients. Linear regression analysis showed that
self-accusation, expectation of punishment, and crying accounted for 82% of
CRH variance.
