ECNP Consensus Meeting March 2000. Guidelines for investigating efficacy in GAD.

Chair: Stuart Montgomery, Barbara van Zwieten-Boot somatic symptoms that are characteristic for generalised anxiety. The largely nonspecific autonomic anxiety symptoms have been reduced in importance in DSMIV (AmeriCommittee: J. Angst, D.S. Baldwin, M. Bourin, R. Buller, can Psychiatric Association, 1994) with more weight given D. Hackett, S. Kasper, U. Kern, M. Lader, Y. Lecrubier, to nervous tension and chronic worrying. Further, the ́ J.P. Lepine, D. Nutt, A. Saint Raymond, D. Sheehan, J. criteria of distress and impairment in function consequent Storosum, J. van Ree, H.U. Wittchen, B.J. van Zwietenon the disorder were specified. Boot