Anxiety Disorders
Podcasts
AUDIO: Reduction in perceived stress triggers migraine
Key clinical point: Prophylactic treatments, including mindfulness and "yoga" breathing, can curb migraine attacks post stress.Major finding: At 6...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Using CBT effectively for treating depression and anxiety
Modify the elements of CBT to address specific anxiety disorders, patient factors
News
CBT effective for social anxiety disorder even with comorbidities
Key clinical point: Twelve 2-hour manualized group CBT sessions can bring positive results for patients with comorbid SAD and bipolar disorder,...
Conference Coverage
N-acetylcysteine may calm hair-pulling, skin-picking disorders
Key clinical point: Finding medication with a proven track record of treating grooming disorders is difficult.Major finding: N-acetylcysteine was...
Conference Coverage
Hoarding disorder looks different in adolescents
Key clinical point: Hoarding disorder among adolescents need not be disruptive to families.Major finding: Hoarding adolescents scored a mean of 11...
Conference Coverage
Panic attacks return after drugs stop, but yield to retreatment
Key clinical point: If patients are asymptomatic after 1 year, consider discontinuing treatment and starting it up again if symptoms reemerge....
Podcasts
AUDIO: CBT better for comorbid depression, anxiety in migraine
News
Young children with OCD respond to family-based therapy
Key clinical point: Families are key in helping young children with OCD experience less-intense symptoms.
From the Editor
100 years of solicitude: Do global traumatic events have a transgenerational effect?
The past 100 years were witness to a barrage of highly stressful, life-threatening, anxiety-producing events: wars, large-scale disasters, assas...
News
Poorer quality of life found in children with at least two anxiety disorders and ADHD
Major finding: Among 392 Australian children with ADHD, the 39% with two or more anxiety disorders had a poorer quality of life, more behavioral...
Evidence-Based Reviews
When does benign shyness become social anxiety, a treatable disorder?
The authors pinpoint the fine line between overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis of SAD.