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- Title
A Primer on Social Anxiety Disorder.
- Authors
Stein, Murray B.
- Abstract
The article offers information on social anxiety disorder (SAD). The author notes that anxiety disorders are the most known type of mental disorder in the U.S., as well as in other countries. He reports that in the U.S., the 12-month prevalence rate for this type of mental disorder is 18%, compared to that of mood disorders. He says that SAD, also known as social phobia, is the second most prevalent of the anxiety disorders, following specific phobia.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ANXIETY disorders; MENTAL illness; MOOD (Psychology); AFFECTIVE disorders; SOCIAL phobia
- Publication
Psychiatric Times, 2007, Vol 24, p3
- ISSN
0893-2905
- Publication type
Article