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An Overview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders

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An Overview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
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Publisher: Department of Veterans Affairs
Number of pages: 23

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VA is committed to expanding the breadth of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related services available to Veterans. Since depressive and anxiety disorders share common features with PTSD, this report was commissioned to examine the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for the treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders as a means to detect treatments that might be applicable to PTSD.

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