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Anxiety across the life span: Epidemiological evidence and treatment data
Author(s) -
Balon Richard
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.1035
Subject(s) - anxiety , citation , psychology , psychiatric epidemiology , life span , depression (economics) , psychiatry , library science , gerontology , medicine , mental health , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
Received for publication November 2000; Accepted 27 December 2000 INTRODUCTION Eight reviewed articles present some interesting data about the following: 1) Psychopathology, pathogenesis, and course of anxiety disorders such as the influence of various factors such as childhood sexual abuse and parenting on lifetime pathology, the overlap between anxiety and attention deficit disorder, the relationship between alcohol consumption and symptoms of anxiety and depression, and the “effect” of age on symptoms of anxiety and depression, and 2) treatment issues such as antecedents of recovery in social phobia; recovery rates and efficacy of psychological treatments for generalized anxiety disorder; and the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy, imipramine, or both for the treatment of panic disorder.