“…The efficacy of augmentation therapy against anxiety and depressive symptoms in post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessivecompulsive disorder, and treatment-resistant depression has also been demonstrated with a range of atypical antipsychotics, including quetiapine (Bogan, Koran, Chuong, Vapnik, & Bystritsky, 2005;Denys, de Geus, Van Megen, & Westenberg, 2004;Devarajan, Ali, & Dursun, 2006;Doree et al, 2004;Hamner, Deitsch, Brodrick, Ulmer, & Lorberbaum, 2003;Yargic et al, 2004), aripiprazole (Worthington, Kinrys, Wygant, & Pollack, 2005), olanzapine (Bystritsky et al, 2004;Weiss, Potenza, McDougle, & Epperson, 1999) and risperidone (Li et al, 2005). Given that atypical antipsychotics have been shown to be an effective adjunctive treatment for anxiety and depression in such a diverse range of psychiatric conditions, it is not surprising that there is a growing interest in using these agents in the treatment of GAD.…”