Cross-sectional Comparison of the Epidemiology of DSM 5
Generalized Anxiety Disorder across the globe.
The essential feature of
generalized anxiety disorder is persistent and excessive worry about several aspects of one's life or the welfare of loved ones.
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Generalized anxiety disorder and mixed anxiety depression, New York: Guilford Press.
Incidence and risk patterns of anxiety and depressive disorders and catagorization of
generalized anxiety disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry.
The symptoms of
generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are persistent and not restricted to any particular set of circumstances.
Establishing the neurobiologic basis of treatment in children and adolescents with
generalized anxiety disorder. Depress Anxiety.
Major Finding: For each patient with depression, social phobia, panic disorder, and
generalized anxiety disorder, the number needed to treat with Internet-based CBT to show an effect was two.
Topics treated include conceptual and empirical issues in classifying major depressive disorder (MDD) and
generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); their psychometric and epidemiological aspects; and whether MDD and GAD are the same or different disorders.
Psychological therapies for
generalized anxiety disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
Military Pathways offers service personnel and their families free assessments, available online 24 hours a day, to identify symptoms associated with mental health disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression,
generalized anxiety disorder, alcohol use, and bipolar disorder.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a common treatment for anxiety and depression, is effective at managing worry and other components of
generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), according to a study in the April 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by chronic, excessive, uncontrollable worrying about many things in life and leads to significant distress and impairment," says Susan Evans, PhD, a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.