Anxiety disorders clinical description

DSM-IV specifies a total of 12 anxiety disorders, but starts by defining panic attacks. Panic attacks are defined separately but are not considered as a separate diagnostic category because they may occur in many of the other anxiety disorders. Likewise, agoraphobia and panic disorder are not considered as specific anxiety diagnoses but rather their combination. In the following, a description of the clinical presentation will be given ... 

In this chapter we have given clinical descriptions and have also explored the biological basis and a variety of treatments for numerous anxiety disorder subtypes, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder. 

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