M. Van Ameringen

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Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder in Canada
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a global health issue, with prevalence rates ranging from 1.3% to 37.4%. As there is little current data on PTSD in Canada, an epidemiological study… Expand
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Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders
BackgroundAnxiety and related disorders are among the most common mental disorders, with lifetime prevalence reportedly as high as 31%. Unfortunately, anxiety disorders are under-diagnosed and… Expand
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Sertraline treatment of generalized social phobia: a 20-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
OBJECTIVE The authors evaluated the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of sertraline, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, in the treatment of generalized social phobia. METHOD Adult… Expand
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The impact of anxiety disorders on educational achievement.
Anxiety disorders typically have an age of onset in childhood and adolescence, resulting in significant disability in social and occupational functioning. Epidemiological evidence suggests that… Expand
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Childhood maltreatment linked to greater symptom severity and poorer quality of life and function in social anxiety disorder
Background: There is a paucity of data examining the prevalence and impact of childhood maltreatment in patients presenting with a primary diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (SAD). We thus examined… Expand
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A confirmatory factor analysis of a self-report version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.
One of the most popular measures of social phobia is the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS; Liebowitz, 1987). The LSAS is a 24-item semi-structured interview measure of fear and avoidance… Expand
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The relationship of behavioral inhibition and shyness to anxiety disorder.
Behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar is a temperamental construct that refers to a characteristic propensity to react to both social and nonsocial novelty with inhibition. In contrast, shyness… Expand
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Relationship of social phobia with other psychiatric illness.
Fifty-seven social phobic patients were studied to identify the comorbidity with other psychiatric illnesses and their temporal relationships. Mood disorders, particularly major depression, was the… Expand
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Individuals with social phobia are biased to become aware of negative faces
To evaluate whether individuals with social phobia are biased to become aware of negative faces participants searched visual displays containing varying number of neutral face distractors for the… Expand
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Manifesto for a European research network into Problematic Usage of the Internet
The Internet is now all-pervasive across much of the globe. While it has positive uses (e.g. prompt access to information, rapid news dissemination), many individuals develop Problematic Use of the… Expand
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