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William Magee
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 25
Citations - 2556
William Magee is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 24 publications receiving 2463 citations. Previous affiliations of William Magee include Max Planck Society & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Agoraphobia, Simple Phobia, and Social Phobia in the National Comorbidity Survey
William Magee,William W. Eaton,Hans-Ulrich Wittchen,Katherine A. McGonagle,Ronald C. Kessler +4 more
TL;DR: Phobias are common, increasingly prevalent, often associated with serious role impairment, and usually go untreated, but barriers to help seeking need to be investigated.
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Childhood adversities and adult depression: basic patterns of association in a US national survey
Ronald C. Kessler,William Magee +1 more
TL;DR: The long-term relationships between various forms of childhood adversity and adult episodes of major depression are explored in a representative household survey of the United States adult (age 25+) population.
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Panic and panic disorder in the United States
TL;DR: There appears to be no obvious threshold for the diagnosis of panic disorder, and panic disorder and agoraphobia, although highly comorbid, also occur separately.
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Specific fears and phobias. Epidemiology and classification.
TL;DR: Number of specific fears may mark a general predisposition to psychopathology and more detailed information is needed to resolve the question of specific phobia subtypes.
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Childhood family violence and adult recurrent depression
Ronald C. Kessler,William Magee +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that chronic interpersonal stress in adulthood mediates the effect of childhood family violence on recurrence of depression, and that childhood familyViolence modifies theeffect of chronic adult interpersonal stress on recurring of depression.