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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2005) 11: 355-361
© 2005 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Anxiety disorders in people with learning disabilities

Sherva Elizabeth Cooray and Alina Bakala

Sherva Cooray is a consultant psychiatrist and lead clinician in the psychiatry of learning disability with Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust (Kingsbury Hospital, Honeypot Lane, London NW9 9QY, UK. E-mail: cooray{at}medimail.net) and an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine, London. Alina Bakala is a specialist registrar, also at Kingsbury Hospital.

People with learning disabilities are much more vulnerable to psychiatric illnesses, and will increasingly be accessing generic services. Treatment and management of psychiatric disorders is problematic, primarily because of difficulties in diagnosis, since classificatory systems are standardised on people with average intellectual functioning. This article provides an overview of the clinical implications of anxiety disorders within the context of learning disability.




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