GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder-7)
Measures severity of anxiety.
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Robert L. Spitzer, MD, served as professor of psychiatry at Columbia University for 49 years before retiring in 2010. He was influential in the advancement of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). He is recognized in many fields in psychiatry from severe mental illness to comparative diagnostics, such as the United States–United Kingdom Diagnostic Project, in which he helped author a paper comparing schizophrenia definitions in the US and UK.
- Ferda Sakman, MD