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Case Reports in Psychiatry
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 749796, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/749796
Case Report

Memantine as an Augmentation Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

Thomas L. Schwartz, Umar A. Siddiqui, and Shafi Raza

Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 E. Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

Received 23 August 2011; Accepted 9 October 2011

Academic Editors: I. G. Anghelescu, D. E. Dietrich, Y. Kaneda, J. Nakamura, and J. Saiz-Ruiz

Copyright © 2012 Thomas L. Schwartz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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