Anxiety Disorders - Hardcover

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Anxiety disorders are extremely common and affect one in twelve adults at some point in their life. In recent years rapid developments in basic science and pharmacology have greatly increased our understanding of the causes of generalized anxiety disorders, panic disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. "Anxiety Disorders" is a comprehensive clinical reference work with a strong emphasis on drug treatment. This book considers major advances and present coherent accounts of diagnosis and management from the clinical point of view. Each chapter is presented in the form of surveys and digests of recent literature, interspersed with clinical guidelines, diagnostic and therapeutic points. "Anxiety Disorders" is divided into three major sections. The first section describes symptoms and syndromes; the second describes mechanisms and the final part is concerned with the various treatments of anxiety disorders.

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