Phobic Disorders - Epidemiology
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures.

17 Nov 2009 Few studies have utilized both categorical and dimensional measures of psychopathology in children with epilepsy. We evaluated 173 children (88 males, 85 females; mean age 11.7y [SD 1.8]; range 9-14y) who had epilepsy (generalized 36%, partial 61%) ... Read more...

Predictors of clinical improvement in a randomized effectiveness trial for primary care patients with panic disorder.

29 Sep 2009 This study's aim was to prospectively examine and identify a model of demographic, clinical, and attitudinal variables that impact improvement among patients with panic disorder. Subjects were 232 primary care patients meeting criteria for DSM-IV ... Read more...

Predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for internet addiction in adolescents: a 2-year prospective study.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of Internet addiction and to determine the sex differences in the predictive value of psychiatric symptoms for the occurrence of Internet addiction in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Phobic Disorders - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures. 17 Nov 2009
• Predictors of clinical improvement in a randomized effectiveness trial for primary care patients with panic disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Predictive values of psychiatric symptoms for internet addiction in adolescents: a 2-year prospective study. 29 Sep 2009
• Co-morbidities of vertiginous diseases. 5 Jul 2009
• Asthma and social anxiety in adolescents. 22 Jun 2009
• Rates and predictors of remission in young women with specific phobia: a prospective community study. 16 Jun 2009
• Social fears during adolescence: is there an increase in distress and avoidance? 4 Jun 2009
• Perceptions of paranoid thoughts in a nonclinical group of college students. 30 May 2009
• Adult strabismus and social phobia: a case-controlled study. 30 May 2009
• Social phobia and perceived friendship quality. 25 May 2009
• Co-morbid social phobia in schizophrenia. 29 Apr 2009
• Specific phobia in older adults: evidence from the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions. 29 Apr 2009
• Social anxiety disorder in the West and in the East. 30 Mar 2009
• Prevalence of dental fear and phobia relative to other fear and phobia subtypes. 30 Mar 2009
• Do autistic traits play a role in the bullying of obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia sufferers? 9 Mar 2009
• Relationships between social anxiety, depressive symptoms, and antisocial behaviors: evidence from a prospective study of adolescent boys. Mar 2009
• Interpretations for safety behaviours in high and low socially anxious individuals. 27 Feb 2009
• Relationship of nicotine dependence, subsyndromal and pathological gambling, and other psychiatric disorders: data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 22 Feb 2009
• From childhood to adult age: 18-year longitudinal results and prediction of the course of mental disorders in the community. 9 Feb 2009
• Judging the intensity of facial expressions of emotion: depression-related biases in the processing of positive affect. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Phobic Disorders'

Definition: Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable.

Descriptor UI: D010698

Alternative terms: Phobic Disorders; Disorder, Phobic; Disorders, Phobic; Phobic Disorder; Phobic Neuroses; Neuroses, Phobic; Phobias; Phobia; Phobia, School; Phobias, School; School Phobia; School Phobias; Phobia, Social; Phobias, Social; Social Phobia; Social Phobias; Claustrophobia; Claustrophobias;

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: F03.080.725;

Online Note: use PHOBIC DISORDERS to search PHOBIAS 1966-80, PHOBIC NEUROSES 1969-80, & CLAUSTROPHOBIA 1968-78

History Note: 81; was PHOBIAS 1963-80; PHOBIC NEUROSES was see under PHOBIAS 1969-80; CLAUSTROPHOBIA was see under PHOBIAS 1968-78