Anxiety Disorders
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Youth perfectionism: Too much of a good thing
Cognitive-behavioral therapy focusing on perfectionism can lead to remission of social anxiety, panic disorder, or other disorders.
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Little treatments show big promise for youth psychiatric problems
Single-session therapeutic interventions aim to increase adolescents’ access to mental health treatment.
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Transgender patients face mental health challenges
What I thought would be a typical morning at the major county hospital – if that were ever possible on a psychiatric emergency unit (EU) – quickly...
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Tweaking CBT to boost outcomes in GAD
SAN FRANCISCO – Various forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy can help patients, but only half of patients improve.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation shows more promise in refractory OCD
SAN FRANSISCO – Short-course TMS therapy can bring remission 12 months after the initial treatment.
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Who’s best suited for Internet-based CBT?
Findings could be interpreted “as an indicator for matching the right type of treatment to the right patient.”
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Anhedonia emerges as a major transdiagnostic treatment target
SAN FRANCISCO – Anhedonia is the symptom dimension that cuts most strongly across the diagnostic boundaries of anxiety and depression and...
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ADHD – not OCD – called the key comorbidity in pediatric hoarding
SAN FRANCISCO – To what extent is childhood hoarding developmentally appropriate?
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Female predisposition to anxiety disorders may have prenatal origin
SAN FRANSISCO – Why are anxiety disorders twice as prevalent in women as in men?
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GI disorders more prevalent in children with poorly controlled asthma
SAN FRANCISCO - Poorly controlled asthma, functional gastrointestinal disorders, and anxiety tend to travel together.
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Tweaking CBT may boost outcomes in hoarding disorder
SAN FRANCISCO – Maladaptive perfectionism may provide a novel target for cognitive-behavioral therapy in patients with hoarding disorder.