Functional Disorders and Comorbidity

O4: Trans-Diagnostic CBT and Comorbidity in the Anxiety Disorders

Recent research from a number of clinical trials has shown that Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is efficacious, having shown comparable effects on primary anxiety disorder diagnoses as traditional diagnosis-specific CBT, and highly economical for treatment providers. However, a majority of anxiety disorder patients present with two or more “comorbid” diagnoses at once. Given that T...

Somatoform disorders in general practice: prevalence, functional impairment and comorbidity with anxiety and depressive disorders.

BACKGROUND General practitioners play a pivotal part in the recognition and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Identifying somatoform disorders is important for the choice of treatment. AIMS To quantify the prevalence of, and functional impairment associated with, somatoform disorders, and their comorbidity with anxiety/depressive disorders. METHOD Two-stage prevalence study: a set of ques...

Anxiety Disorders and Depression Comorbidity

cognitive (Mathews & MacLeod, 2005), behavioral genetic (Middeldorp et al., 2005), specifi c genetic (Leonardo & Hen, 2006), psychophysiological (McNaughton & Corr, 2004), and neurochemical levels (Heim & Nemeroff , 2001). Th is chapter reviews the research on comorbid anxiety disorders and depression, while raising some methodological and clinical issues relevant to future research. Prior to e...

Mental disorders and medical comorbidity.

Comorbidity of psychiatric disorders in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Background and Objectives: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) occurs concurrently with many psychiatric disorders. Considering lack of information about comorbid psychiatric disorders in Iranian children, this study was performed to evaluate the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric disorders comorbidity in the children with ADHD. Methods: In a cross sectional study, frequency of c...