Citation

Stein MB, Tancer ME, Gelernter CS, Vittone BJ, Uhde TW. Am. J. Psychiatry 1990; 147(5): 637-639.

Affiliation

Section on Anxiety and Affective Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

10.1176/ajp.147.5.637

PMID

2327493

Abstract

The authors examined the longitudinal course of affective illness retrospectively in 63 patients with social phobia and 54 patients with panic disorder. Significantly fewer (35%) of the patients with social phobia than patients with panic disorder (63%) had experienced at least one major depressive episode. Patients with generalized social phobia and patients with specific social phobia had comparable past rates of major depression (37% and 30%, respectively). The clinical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed within the context of current concepts regarding the development of depressive symptoms in patients with anxiety disorders.

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