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Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 1998
The literature on social phobia is reviewed in this article. Social phobia has undergone considerable diagnostic evolution to reach its present form in DSM-IV. Its differential diagnosis includes panic disorder with agoraphobia, avoidant personality disorder, depression, and "shyness." Cross-cultural issues are important to consider because the ...
C S, Fones, G G, Manfro, M H, Pollack
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The literature on social phobia is reviewed in this article. Social phobia has undergone considerable diagnostic evolution to reach its present form in DSM-IV. Its differential diagnosis includes panic disorder with agoraphobia, avoidant personality disorder, depression, and "shyness." Cross-cultural issues are important to consider because the ...
C S, Fones, G G, Manfro, M H, Pollack
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International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1997
Social phobia is associated with a high level of dysfunction because of the direct effect the disorder has on the ability of the individual to interact with others in social or work situations. The level of impairment and disability is seen to be as severe as and, in some cases, more severe than is seen in other chronic disorders such as depression ...
Juan J. López-lbor +1 more
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Social phobia is associated with a high level of dysfunction because of the direct effect the disorder has on the ability of the individual to interact with others in social or work situations. The level of impairment and disability is seen to be as severe as and, in some cases, more severe than is seen in other chronic disorders such as depression ...
Juan J. López-lbor +1 more
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CNS Spectrums, 1999
AbstractSocial phobia is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive fear and/or avoidance of situations in which an individual believes that he or she may be the subject of evaluation or scrutiny while interacting with other people or performing a specific task.
J M, Bebchuk, M E, Tancer
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AbstractSocial phobia is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive fear and/or avoidance of situations in which an individual believes that he or she may be the subject of evaluation or scrutiny while interacting with other people or performing a specific task.
J M, Bebchuk, M E, Tancer
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Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1993
The novel anxiolytic agent buspirone has been shown to be effective in generalized anxiety disorder, but its utility in phobic disorders is less clear. We examined its efficacy in social phobia in a 12-week open trial. Twenty-one patients who met DSM-III-R criteria for social phobia and who did not respond to 1 week of single-blind placebo were treated
F R, Schneier +6 more
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The novel anxiolytic agent buspirone has been shown to be effective in generalized anxiety disorder, but its utility in phobic disorders is less clear. We examined its efficacy in social phobia in a 12-week open trial. Twenty-one patients who met DSM-III-R criteria for social phobia and who did not respond to 1 week of single-blind placebo were treated
F R, Schneier +6 more
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Social phobia with sudden onset—Post-panic social phobia?
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2008Overlap between social phobia (SP) and panic disorder (PD) has been observed in epidemiological, family, and challenge studies. One possible explanation is that some cases of SP develop as a consequence of a panic attack in a social situation. By definition, these cases of SP have sudden onset. It is hypothesized that patients with SP with sudden onset
Kristensen, Ann Suhl +2 more
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The neurobiology of social phobia
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1999Although Social Phobia has been recognised for centuries in comparison with other anxiety disorders, relatively little work has been done to understand its neural basis. The present review attempts to redress this balance by giving an overview of the current state of knowledge in this disorder.
C J, Bell, A L, Malizia, D J, Nutt
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The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999
A variety of drug treatments have been shown to be effective in the treatment of social phobia. This study attempted to assess the efficacy of nefazodone, a new novel serotonergic drug, in the treatment of social phobia.Nefazodone was administered to 23 patients who had a primary DSM-IV diagnosis of social phobia, generalized type (diagnosed by the ...
M, Van Ameringen +2 more
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A variety of drug treatments have been shown to be effective in the treatment of social phobia. This study attempted to assess the efficacy of nefazodone, a new novel serotonergic drug, in the treatment of social phobia.Nefazodone was administered to 23 patients who had a primary DSM-IV diagnosis of social phobia, generalized type (diagnosed by the ...
M, Van Ameringen +2 more
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British Journal of Psychiatry, 1986
The natural history-including psychiatric symptoms, precipitating factors, onset and course of illness, and personality characteristics-of 47 social phobics, 80 agoraphobics, and 72 simple phobics was examined. The social phobia group differed from the agoraphobia group by having a lower mean age, fewer females and married members, and a higher ...
L, Solyom, B, Ledwidge, C, Solyom
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The natural history-including psychiatric symptoms, precipitating factors, onset and course of illness, and personality characteristics-of 47 social phobics, 80 agoraphobics, and 72 simple phobics was examined. The social phobia group differed from the agoraphobia group by having a lower mean age, fewer females and married members, and a higher ...
L, Solyom, B, Ledwidge, C, Solyom
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Tranylcypromine in Social Phobia
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1988Thirty-two patients meeting DSM-III criteria for social phobia entered a 1-year drug treatment with tranylcypromine in dosages between 40 and 60 mg/day. After exclusion of the early dropouts, improvement was rated as marked and moderate in 62% and 17% of the sample (N = 29), respectively. Alcohol abuse was associated with a poor outcome.
M, Versiani +3 more
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The pharmacotherapy of social phobia
International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1996Social phobia has been recognized as a discrete diagnostic condition only relatively recently. Epidemiological studies have shown that social phobia is associated with significant impairment and an increasing body of evidence has now indicated that pharmacological treatment is effective.
M H, Pollack, R A, Gould
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