Personality disorders pose a major therapeutic challenge in psychiatry. However, a substantial body of research suggests that various pharmacological agents, especially low-dose neuroleptics, may be useful against affective, cognitive and behavioural symptoms occurring in these patients. It is propo
Pharmacotherapy of anxious disorders
โ Scribed by Michel Bourin; Olivier Lambert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6222
- DOI
- 10.1002/hup.435
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
The present paper is a review of the treatment of anxious disorders by the current pharmaceutical medications; a short epidemiological survey is given for anxious disorders including: general anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety and postโtraumatic stress disorder. For all these disorders there are proposals of treatment built on literature data mainly on metaโanalysis as well on personal experience. Copyright ยฉ 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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