Anxiety Disorders - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety.

30 Oct 2008 CONTEXT: Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) dysfunction manifests in adolescents with anxiety disorders when they view negatively valenced stimuli in threatening contexts. Such fear-circuitry dysfunction may also manifest when ... Read more...

Prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients requesting physicians' aid in dying: cross sectional survey.

5 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of depression and anxiety in terminally ill patients pursuing aid in dying from physicians. DESIGN: Cross sectional survey. SETTING: State of Oregon, USA. PARTICIPANTS: 58 Oregonians, most terminally ill with ... Read more...

[Tsunami--impact on survivors and next of kin]

9 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Survivors from the Tsunami in South East Asia 2004 and their next of kin were examined during the first year after the event with respect to trauma, symptoms and function, and satisfaction with the help they had been offered. MATERIAL ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Anxiety Disorders'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety. 30 Oct 2008
• [Arrogance of power?] 11 Oct 2008
• Prevalence of depression and anxiety in patients requesting physicians' aid in dying: cross sectional survey. 5 Oct 2008
• [Tsunami--impact on survivors and next of kin] 9 Sep 2008
• Assessing the reporting and scientific quality of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of treatments for anxiety disorders. 31 Aug 2008
• Effect of treatment with efavirenz on neuropsychiatric adverse events of interferon in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients. 30 Aug 2008
• Impact of escitalopram treatment on Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire scores in major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. 30 Aug 2008
• The Beck Anxiety Inventory-Trait (BAIT): a measure of dispositional anxiety not contaminated by dispositional depression. 30 Aug 2008
• The impact of symptoms and impairments on overall health in US national health data. 30 Aug 2008
• The relationships of sociodemographic factors, medical, psychiatric, and substance-misuse co-morbidities to neurocognition in short-term abstinent alcohol-dependent individuals. 30 Aug 2008
• The impact of co-morbid alcohol use disorder in bipolar patients. 30 Aug 2008
• Assessment of generalized anxiety disorder diagnostic criteria in the National Comorbidity Survey and Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. 30 Aug 2008
• Further validation of the IDAS: evidence of convergent, discriminant, criterion, and incremental validity. 30 Aug 2008
• [Reference programs for anxiety and depression] 30 Aug 2008
• Pitfalls of meta-analyses. 30 Aug 2008
• Managing challenging patient behaviors. 30 Aug 2008
• Post traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety among family medicine residents after 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 30 Aug 2008
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder spectrum as a scientific "metaphor". 30 Aug 2008
• Psychobiology of anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. 30 Aug 2008
• Anxiety and the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Introduction. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Anxiety Disorders'

Definition: Persistent and disabling ANXIETY.

Descriptor UI: D001008

Alternative terms: Anxiety Disorders; Anxiety Disorder; Disorder, Anxiety; Disorders, Anxiety; Neuroses, Anxiety; Anxiety Neuroses; Anxiety States, Neurotic; Anxiety State, Neurotic; Neurotic Anxiety State; Neurotic Anxiety States; State, Neurotic Anxiety; States, Neurotic Anxiety;

Related Mesh Headings: Anxiety; Anti-Anxiety Agents;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.080;

Online Note: use ANXIETY DISORDERS to search NEUROSES, ANXIETY 1966-80

History Note: 81; was NEUROSES, ANXIETY 1963-80

Technical Notes: differentiate from ANXIETY