Anxiety Disorders, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

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Topics include: The size and burden of Anxiety worldwide: An update, Patterns of comorbidity and the structure of anxiety and mental disorders revisited: Lumping or splitting?, Anxiety and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: Developmental issues, precursor conditions, etc., Anxiety disorder - all the same? Anxiety as fear circuitry disorders Anxiety disorders - all the same? Genetic and psychoneuroendocrinological mechanisms, First line treatment: A critical appraisal of CBT developments and alternatives, Panic/ Agoraphobia, GAD, Social Phobia, Specific phobias, stress-related disorders and PTSD, OCD and related disorders, Public Health Perspective: Why did we fail?

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By Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, PhD and Andrew T. Gloster, PhD