Combining escitalopram and cognitive-behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: randomised controlled fMRI

Malin Gingnell1, Andreas Frick2, Jonas Engman2

  • 1Malin Gingnell, MD, PhD, Andreas Frick, PhD, Jonas Engman, MSc, Iman Alaie, MSc, Johannes Björkstrand, MSc, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Vanda Faria, PhD, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and Center for Pain and the Brain, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Per Carlbring, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Gerhard Andersson, PhD, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Psychology, Linköping University, Linköping, and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Margareta Reis, PhD, Division of Drug Research/Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Elna-Marie Larsson, MD, PhD, Department of Surgical Sciences/Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Kurt Wahlstedt, MD, PhD, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Mats Fredrikson, DMSc, PhD, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Tomas Furmark, PhD, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden malin.gingnell@psyk.uu.se.

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