Borwin Bandelow, Christer Allgulander, David S Baldwin, Daniel Lucas da Conceição Costa, Damiaan Denys, Nesrin Dilbaz, Katharina Domschke, Eric Hollander, Siegfried Kasper, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Elias Eriksson, Naomi A Fineberg, Josef Hättenschwiler, Hisanobu Kaiya, Tatiana Karavaeva, Martin A Katzman, Yong-Ku Kim, Takeshi Inoue, Leslie Lim, Vasilios Masdrakis, José M Menchón, Euripedes C Miguel, Antônio E Nardi, Stefano Pallanti, Giampaolo Perna, Dan Rujescu, Vladan Starcevic, Dan J Stein, Shih-Jen Tsai, Michael Van Ameringen, Anna Vasileva, Zhen Wang, Joseph Zohar
AIM: This is the third version of the guideline of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force for the Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders which was published in 2002 and revised in 2008. METHOD: A consensus panel of 34 international experts representing 22 countries developed recommendations based on efficacy and acceptability of the treatments. In this version, not only medications but also psychotherapies and other non-pharmacological interventions were evaluated, applying the same rigorous methods that are standard for the assessment of medication treatments...
February 2023: World Journal of Biological Psychiatry