anxiety disorders in adolescents. They also looked at the impact of metabolism on escitalopram blood levels in adolescents.The research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, is published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., with approximately 4.4 million children and adolescents affected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.“These disorders are not only common in children and teens, but, if untreated, result in considerable personal and economic cost over the lifetime,” said Jeffrey Strawn, M.D., associate professor and anxiety expert in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of.
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