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Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the Elderly

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
Anxiety disorders, especially GAD, are among the most prevalent psychiatric illnesses in the elderly. Unfortunately, research relative to late-onset anxiety syndromes and longitudinal studies of early-onset anxiety syndromes are sparse. Nonetheless, clinicians can properly assess and treat older adults with anxiety disorders and improve their quality ...
F, Dada, S, Sethi, G T, Grossberg
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Women

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
Women have a higher prevalence of GAD than do men. This ratio holds true in most clinical and general-population samples. Some variations exist, with evidence to suggest the strong impact of environment and life events. Women are sensitive to lifetime adversity and exacerbation of symptoms in conjunction with their menstrual cycle.
H B, Howell, O, Brawman-Mintzer, J, Monnier, K A, Yonkers   +3 more
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PET in generalized anxiety disorder

Biological Psychiatry, 1991
Positron emission tomography (PET) measurements of cerebral glucose use were made in 18 patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) during a passive viewing task off medication, and an active vigilance viewing task before and after medication or placebo treatment. In the passive viewing task, patients with GAD were compared with 15 normal controls.
J C, Wu, M S, Buchsbaum, T G, Hershey, E, Hazlett, N, Sicotte, J C, Johnson   +5 more
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Pharmacotherapy of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

2013
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is chiefly characterized by a cognitive focus on threats and risks towards the individual and/or the immediate family. It is accompanied by a sense of tension, worry, muscle pain, disturbed sleep and irritability. The condition impairs work capacity, relations, and leisure activities, and aggravates concurrent somatic
Christer, Allgulander, David S, Baldwin
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Azapirones for generalized anxiety disorder

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2006
Azapirones are a group of drugs that work at the 5-HT1A receptor and are used to treat patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, several studies have shown conflicting results. Whether azapirones are useful as first line treatment in general anxiety disorders still needs to be answered.To assess the efficacy and the ...
C A, Chessick, M H, Allen, Me, Thase, A B C, Batista Miralha da Cunha, F F K, Kapczinski, M S M L, de Lima, J J S S, dos Santos Souza   +6 more
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Generalised anxiety disorder

Evidence Based Mental Health, 2004
The EBMH Notebook summarises key messages about generalised anxiety disorder, sourced from: Clin Evid Concise2004 (in press); www.clinicalevidence.com. For this review, Clinical Evidence Concise searched and appraised material published until June 2003. Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is defined as excessive worry and tension about every day events
Christopher K, Gale, Mark, Oakley-Browne
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder in the Classroom

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2012
Interventions for students with generalized anxiety disorder require attention to contextual factors both within and outside the classroom. They often are based on the principles of increasing environmental predictability and increasing the student’s sense of self-efficacy.
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Cognitive processes of generalized anxiety disorder in comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2008
This study examines how cognitive variables, which play a central role in the development and maintenance of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), manifest themselves when GAD and major depressive disorder (MDD) are comorbid. Thirty-two participants were divided into two groups, a group of individuals with a principal diagnosis of comorbid GAD and MDD ...
Jean-Bernard, Dupuy, Robert, Ladouceur
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Neurobiology of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2009
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common illness with diagnostic criteria that have changed substantially over time. Symptoms of GAD overlap with those of major depressive disorder to such an extent that studying one disorder without studying the other may be impossible. Such an overlap, combined with potentially inappropriate diagnostic criteria
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Comorbidity in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
GAD has rates of comorbidity that equal or exceed those of other anxiety disorders, and it is one of the most common comorbid conditions with other disorders. Depressive disorders, especially MDD, and other anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder, most commonly co-occur.
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