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MEDICATIONS. This chart lists the names of drugs commonly prescribed for anxiety disorders, the disorder for which they're indicated, and how they are thought to work.
Compare risks and benefits of common medications used for Anxiety. Find the most popular drugs, view ratings and user reviews.
meDiCAtion Medication treatment of anxiety is generally safe and effective. Four major classes of medications are used to treat anxiety disorders: SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor), SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor), tricyclic antidepressant, and benzodiazepine. For more information, visit www.adaa.org.
Medications. Symptoms of anxiety and depressive disorders often occur together, and both respond to different classes of medications. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) medications are the treatment of choice. SSRIs and SNRIs have fewer side effects than
This review’s first aim is to summarize current pharmacological treatments (both approved and off-label) for panic disorder (PD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and specic phobias (SP), including selective serotonin reuptake fi inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), azapirone...
Clinicians often use medications from different classes to address a specific experience of anxiety such as flying on a plane, giving a speech, or other performance activity. Some of these medications come from the class of benzodiazepines, such as lorazepam (AtivanTM) and clonazepam (KlonipinTM).
Newer antidepressants, such as mirtazapine, nefazodone, and venlafaxine XR, may provide some benefits across the broad spectrum of anxiety disorders with the safety and tolerability that are the hallmarks of third generation antide-pressants. (J Clin Psychiatry 1999;60[suppl 22]:18–22) CONCEPTUAL MODELS LINKING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.