Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2, Supplement 1 , Pages 48-54 , March 2000

Anxiety and anxiety disorders in the old and very old—Results from the Berlin aging study (BASE)

  • R.T. Schaub

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Stralsund, and Department of Psychiatry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to R.T. Schaub, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Rostocker Chaussee 70, 18437 Stralsund.
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  • M. Linden

      Affiliations

    • From the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald, Stralsund, and Department of Psychiatry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
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