Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptomatology, Pathogenesis and Management Edited by Dávid Nutt • Kari Rickels • Dan J Stein Generalized anxiety disorder, onee considered a diagnosis ol'exclusion, is at last gaining acceptance as a serious and disabling psychiatric disorder that has enduring harmful effects on the sufferer. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Symptomatology, Pathogenesis and Management follows the clear and concise style ofprevious books on panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, bringing together the latest research and clinical data in the field. It will be of undoubted interest to readers across a wide rangé of disciplines. Psychiatrists will find guidance on brain mechanisms and drug treatments and psychologists will gain insights into the cognitive processes in GAD, while neuroscientists will find ideas relating to mechanisms as well as to targets for potential new therapeutic interventions. Dávid Nutt dm frcp FRCPsych FMed Sci is Professor of... Tovább

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptomatology, Pathogenesis and Management Edited by Dávid Nutt • Kari Rickels • Dan J Stein Generalized anxiety disorder, onee considered a diagnosis ol'exclusion, is at last gaining acceptance as a serious and disabling psychiatric disorder that has enduring harmful effects on the sufferer. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Symptomatology, Pathogenesis and Management follows the clear and concise style ofprevious books on panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, bringing together the latest research and clinical data in the field. It will be of undoubted interest to readers across a wide rangé of disciplines. Psychiatrists will find guidance on brain mechanisms and drug treatments and psychologists will gain insights into the cognitive processes in GAD, while neuroscientists will find ideas relating to mechanisms as well as to targets for potential new therapeutic interventions. Dávid Nutt dm frcp FRCPsych FMed Sci is Professor of Psychopharmacology and Head ofthe Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the Past President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology and is a Council Member of the European College of Neuropsychophariuacology (ECNP). His publications include Atlas of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy (1999) and Anxiety Disorders: An Introduction to Clinical Management and Research (2001). He is the editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology. Kari Rickels md is the Stuart and Eniily BH Mudd Professor and Chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Section at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA. His publications include Methodology of the Evaluation of Psychotropic Drugs (1990) and Rational and Appropriate Prescribing of the Benzodiazepines (2001). He is a co-editor of P/i armaco psych iatry. Dan J Stein md PhD is Director of the MRC Unit on Anxiety Disorders at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa and Research Associate Professor at the University of Gainesville, Florida, USA. His publications include Textbook of Treatment Algoritluns in Psychopharmacology (1999), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (2001) and the Textbook of Anxiety Disorders (2002). He is Associate International Editor of CNS Spectrums. Vissza