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Generalized Anxiety Disorder [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2004
During a routine visit, a 59-year-old woman, who describes herself as a lifetime “worrier” and has a family history of depression, reports having restless sleep, muscle tension, and fatigue. Recently, her worry has intensified about her children, her job, and her health, and it is having a negative effect on her family and work life.
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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 ...
Farooq Dada, George T. Grossberg, Sanjiv Sethi   +2 more
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Revisited

Psychiatric Quarterly, 2020
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) from an official recognition as a residual category in DSM-III has come a long way to be appreciated as a common underlying anxiety pathway in the literature. Despite still being defined as extreme anxiety and worry upon performance and about one's health, GAD seems to be a general umbrella of anxiety, covering even ...
Tiffany Showraki, Kimberly Brown, Mostafa Showraki   +2 more
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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 ...
Michael H. Allen, Flávio Kapczinski, Cheryl A. Chessick, Mauricio Silva de Lima, Angelo Batista Miralha da Cunha, Michael E. Thase, Juliano Jss dos Santos Souza   +6 more
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

2021
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common and disabling illness that is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Patients with GAD are at increased risk for suicide as well as cardiovascular-related events and death. Most patients can be diagnosed and managed by primary care physicians.
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The Epidemiology of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
The literature reviewed here is consistent in showing that GAD is a common mental disorder that typically has an early age of onset, a chronic course, and a high degree of comorbidity with other anxiety and mood disorders. Comorbid GAD is often temporally primary, especially in relation to mood disorders, and is associated with an increased risk for ...
Ronald C. Kessler, Martin B. Keller, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen   +2 more
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Treatments for generalized anxiety disorder

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2004
Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive chronic anxiety in association with many somatic symptoms. The disorder has pervasive effects on quality of life, including work, social and educational aspects and requires long-term therapy.
Aimee Coonerty-Femiano, Lukasz Struzik, Martin A Katzman, Monica Vermani   +3 more
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2013
Gayatri Patel, Tonya L. Fancher
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Neurobiology of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
On reviewing the literature on GAD and trying to summarize the various developments in the field of neurobiology of GAD, we see that a range of hypotheses try to explore and integrate the observations found into potentially meaningful theories. Abnormal serotonergic and GABAergic function occur in many patients with GAD.
Praveen V. Jetty, Andrew Goddard, Dennis S. Charney   +2 more
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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.
Jeannine Monnier, Kimberly A. Yonkers, Heather B. Howell, Olga Brawman-Mintzer   +3 more
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