Cross-cultural variations in the prevalence and presentation of anxiety disorders

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-322

  Marques, Luana ^a   Robinaugh, Donald J ^a,b   Leblanc, Nicole J ^a   Hinton, Devon ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Culture; Phenomenology; Prevalence; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOM; TENSION;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 79951649485     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.122     Document Type: Review

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