Social anxiety disorder: Current perspectives on diagnosis and treatment

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 35-48

  Belzer, Kenneth D ^a   McKee, Michael B ^a,b   Liebowitz, Michael R ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BROFAROMINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUVOXAMINE; GABAPENTIN; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; PREGABALIN; SELEGILINE; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TRANYLCYPROMINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE COURSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOM;

EID: 28644438976     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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