How anxiety presents differently in older adults

Current Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 65-71

  Bassil, Nazem ^a   Ghandour, Abdalraouf ^b   Grossberg, George T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUSPIRONE; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; AGORAPHOBIA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTICHOLINERGIC SYNDROME; ANXIETY DISORDER; CARDIOTOXICITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 79954459248     PISSN: 15378276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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