Recent Advances in the Study of Sleep in the Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 761-776

  Boland, Elaine M ^a,b   Ross, Richard J ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Circadian rhythms; Generalized anxiety disorder; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sleep

Indexed keywords

AGOMELATINE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; CYPROHEPTADINE; ESCITALOPRAM; ESZOPICLONE; FLUVOXAMINE; GABAPENTIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEFAZODONE; OLANZAPINE; PLACEBO; PRAZOSIN; PREGABALIN; QUETIAPINE; RAMELTEON; RISPERIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE; ZIPRASIDONE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIVER TOXICITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONOTHERAPY; NIGHTMARE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATHOGENESIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; TREATMENT DURATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; COMPLICATION; PARASOMNIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84947486343     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: 15583147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2015.07.005     Document Type: Review

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