Anxiety in elderly people - Epidemiology, diagnostic features and therapeutic options;Angst im alter - Epidemiologie, diagnostik und therapeutische optionen

Fortschritte der Neurologie Psychiatrie

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 564-573

  Boerner, Reinhard J ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Christlic Krankhs Quakenbruck eV   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUSPIRONE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; HYDROXYZINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; OPIPRAMOL; PAROXETINE; REBOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOMATIC DELUSION; SOMATIC DISEASE; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

AGED; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 6344254744     PISSN: 07204299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-818530     Document Type: Article

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