Neuroenhancement of Exposure Therapy in Anxiety Disorders
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Neuroenhancement of Exposure Therapy in Anxiety Disorders
Although exposure-based treatments and anxiolytic medications are more effective than placebo for treating anxiety disorders, there is still considerable room for further improvement. Interestingly, combining these two modalities is usually not more effective than the monotherapies. Recent translational research has identified a number of novel approaches for treating anxiety disorders using ag...
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عنوان ژورنال: AIMS Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2373-7972
DOI: 10.3934/neuroscience.2015.3.123