OPL Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Chapter 4 Neurobiology

Catherine Mancini, Michael Van Ameringen, Beth Patterson and Mark H. Pollack

  • • The study of neurobiology in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is in its infancy.
  • • Key neurological structures thought to be involved in GAD include the amygdala and insula.






DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199557837.003.0004

Generalized Anxiety Disorder provides a user-friendly overview of the characterization, diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of GAD in addition to differential diagnoses, pathogenesis, course and clinical co-morbidity associated with this disorder.

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