Treating anxiety disorders in children and adolescents with epilepsy: What do we know?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-142

  Jones, Jana E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Epilepsy; Interventions; Pediatric anxiety; Treatment

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMANTINE; NORADRENALIN; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV; DYSTHYMIA; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PANIC; PHOBIA; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TIC; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS;

EID: 84911135160     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.06.021     Document Type: Review

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