title: Anxiety disorder presentations in Asian populations: a review.
abstract: This article reviews typical anxiety presentations in Asia, and among Asian refugees. In Asia, there are multiple functional somatic syndromes that are common anxiety presentations. These distress syndromes often produce catastrophic cognitions about anxiety-type somatic and psychological symptoms. These functional somatic syndromes should be understood, and specifically assessed and addressed, in order to optimize the evaluation and treatment of anxiety disorders among Asian individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. devon_hinton@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Devon E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Hinton
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Curtis
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hsia
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: Mark H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Pollack
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D044466:Asian People / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans
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