Online CBT for Depression, GAD Is Effective for Most 
Family Practice News Digital Network
The investigators studied 663 patients who completed an online cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) course for depression (n=302; 58% female) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) (n=361; 74% female). The patients' average age was 43.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Excessive, Exaggerated, and Chronic Worry 
Officer.com
by Pamela Kulbarsh Generalized anxiety disorder is a relatively common mental illness. In the USA GAD affects 6.8 million USA adults annually (3.1% of the population.). The chance that any given person in this country will develop the disorder over a ...
Oh my GAD: Confessions of a Neurotic Jewish Mother Huffington Post

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Mystery Gene Reveals New Mechanism for Anxiety Disorders 
Science Daily (press release)
The system offers a tantalizing new target for drugs designed to treat conditions such as anxiety disorder, epilepsy, and sleep disorders. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that animals with multiple copies of the ...
Gene opens unique way to attack anxiety Futurity: Research News

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May is Mental Health Month 2012 
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Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), phobia and generalized anxiety disorder. Panic disorder is characterized by panic attacks, which are sudden feelings of extreme fear ...
Multimedia Release -- New 3-Minute Screen for Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar ... MarketWatch (press release)
Understanding mental health Aspen Daily News

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Does Worrying About Worrying Lead to Generalized Anxiety? 
GoodTherapy.org (blog)
But individuals, who worry constantly, chronic worriers, may be at risk for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), according to a recent study led by Alexander M. Penney of the Psychology Department at Lakehead University in Canada.

 

Growing Incidence Rates, Coupled with Increasing Aging Population to Propel ... 
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Pharmacotherapy, as well as psychotherapeutic approaches, has been established to be effective in treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). The combination of these two approaches is expected to curtail limitations of any single approach and result ...

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Positive Social Support Reduces Health-Related Anxiety in Cancer Survivors 
GoodTherapy.org (blog)
It is difficult to find solid information on Generalized Anxiety Disorder or to have it taken seriously. It... Angela: Just because your kids are part of a team does not lead to any guarantee that they won't be involved in drugs or other poor choice.

 

Standard student stress or anxiety disorder? 
The Corsair
Generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, is a common anxiety disorder, according to the ADAA. Typical symptoms are excessive and uncontrollable worry, muscle tension, fatigue, and irritability. The exact triggers of GAD are unknown, but a family history ...
Anxiety And Kids: When To Worry About An Anxious Child Huffington Post

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COLUMN: 'About anxiety disorders' 
Kiowa County Signal
Anxiety disorders are usually very treatable, and can help most people lead productive, fulfilling lives. Anxiety disorders include: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) involves constant, out of proportion worry that the worst will happen.

 

Panel suggests DSM-5 psychiatry manual drops two disorders, keeps new autism ... 
CBS News
The panel announced that attenuated psychosis syndrome -- which identifies people at risk of developing psychosis -- and mixed anxiety depressive disorder -- a diagnosis which combines both anxiety and depression -- should not be included in the ...
The Gloom-and-Doom Disease: Should Woody Allens Have a Home in the Manual of ... Scientific American (blog)
Anxiety ? Something More to Worry About? Newsolio
Critics Blast Big Psychiatry for Invented and Redefined Mental Illnesses The New American

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