Saturday, February 10, 2007
For Anxiety Disorders: Therapy and Medication
Washington Post - According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders affect about 40 million American adults in any given year. NIMH offers information on getting help for an anxiety disorder. Here is a sampling of its advice: If you think you
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Who Benefits From Behavior Therapy?
Medscape News - Results of the MTA study suggested that patients with comorbid anxiety disorders benefited from combined medication management and behavior therapy. This finding was particularly robust for children with a comorbid anxiety disorder and comorbid
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Internet help for social anxiety disorder
Health 24 - Internet help for social anxiety disorder It is somewhat of a miracle that Sally* is sitting in a restaurant, casually eating and Having been in cognitive-behavioural therapy and on medication for a year already, I was managing better, but still
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Is Behavior Therapy as Effective as Pharmacologic Treatment?
Medscape News - Approximately one third of the sample had a comorbid anxiety disorder. The primary finding of this study was that behavioral treatment was not as effective at reducing ADHD symptoms as medication. Secondary findings included (1) patients in all
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The State of the Art of Treatment for Pediatric and Adolescent ADHD
Medscape News - After controlling for such differences in study design, the average effect size of nonstimulant/other medication (0.62 This study found strong evidence for an effect of lifetime history of an anxiety disorder on severity of impairment of current
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