Pharmacotherapy for social anxiety disorder (SAnD).

CONCLUSIONS: We found evidence of treatment efficacy for the SSRIs, but it is based on very low- to moderate-quality evidence. Tolerability of SSRIs was lower than placebo, but absolute withdrawal rates were low.While a small number of trials did report treatment efficacy for benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants, MAOIs, and RIMAs, readers should consider this finding in the context of potential for abuse or unfavourable side effects.
PMID: 29048739 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - October 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Williams T, Hattingh CJ, Kariuki CM, Tromp SA, van Balkom AJ, Ipser JC, Stein DJ Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research