Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are extremely common and affect one in twelve adults at some point in their life. In recent years rapid developments in basic science and pharmacology have greatly increased our understanding of the causes of generalized anxiety disorders, panic disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Anxiety Disorders is a comprehensive clinical refernce work with a strong empahsis on drug treatment. This book considers major advances and present coherent accounts of diagnosis and management from the clinical point of view. Each chapter is presented in the form of surveys and digests of recent literature, interspersed with clinical guidelines, diagnostic and therapeutic points. Anxiety Disorders is divided into three major sections. The fiorst section describes symptoms and syndromes; the second describes mechanisms and the final part is concerned with the various treatments of anxiety disorders.Nutt, David J. is the author of 'Anxiety Disorders' with ISBN 9780632059386 and ISBN 0632059389.