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Citalopram for Social Anxiety Disorder: An Open-label Pilot Study in Refractory and Nonrefractory Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Naomi M. Simon ,
Nicole B. Korbly ,
John J. Worthington ,
Gustavo Kinrys  and
Mark H. Pollack
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Abstract

There is limited systematic data assessing alternate pharmacotherapy of social anxiety disorder in patients failing to tolerate or fully respond to initial treatment; no data specifically address the efficacy of citalopram in this scenario. We present a prospective open-label trial of citalopram in 10 patients with generalized social anxiety disorder, 6 of 10 of whom had not responded to or not tolerated a prior treatment intervention for the disorder. Citalopram, at a mean dose of 55 mg (SD+12.7 mg) was well tolerated, and patients improved significantly on all outcome measures. Results of this study suggest that citalopram may be a safe and effective treatment for generalized social anxiety disorder, including patients who have failed to tolerate or respond to a prior treatment trial.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 7 , Issue 9 , September 2002 , pp. 655 - 657
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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