Learning Objectives
- How frequent is anxiety in the community?
- Why is it difficult to diagnose anxiety in older populations?
- What are the most significant morbidities associated with anxiety in late-life?
- What is the first-line treatment for GAD?
Carmen Andreescu, MD
Dr. Carmen Andreescu is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a licensed psychiatrist, with additional expertise in Geriatric and Interventional Psychiatry. Dr. Andreescu is an expert in the cognitive and affective neuroscience of anxiety disorders in late-life and across the lifespan, and her research explores topics such as the effect of anxiety and stress on accelerated aging, as well as the clinical and neural markers of treatment response in late-life anxiety and depression. In this talk, she will discuss about the various clinical presentations of anxiety in late-life and their effect on brain and body aging.
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