Social anxiety disorder: What are we losing with the current diagnostic criteria?

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 216-226

  Filho, A S ^a,b   Hetem, L A B ^a   Ferrari, M C F ^a,b   Trzesniak, C ^a,b   Martin Santos R ^b,c   Borduqui, T ^a,b   De Lima Osorio F ^a,b   Loureiro, S R ^a,b   Busatto Filho, G ^a,b   Zuardi, A W ^a,b   Crippa, J A S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b National Institute for Translational Medicine (INCT TM CNPq)   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

College students; Comorbidity; Diagnosis; Prevalence; Psychosocial impairment; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VALIDITY;

EID: 76449088397     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2009.01459.x     Document Type: Article

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