Anxiety disorder
hideAnxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of abnormal and pathological fears and anxieties which only came under the aegis of psychiatry at the very end of the 19th Century. Current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize a wide variety of anxiety disorders. Recent surveys have found that as many as 18% of Americans may be affected by one or more of them.
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News tagged with anxiety disorders
Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased
Nov 09, 2009 |
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It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...
Two brain structures key to emotional balance especially in threatening situations
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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Researchers have discovered that a primitive region of the brain responsible for sensorimotor control also has an important role in regulating emotional responses to threatening situations. This region appears to work in ...
Psychiatric disorders and sexual trauma are associated with lower urinary tract symptoms
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Depression, anxiety disorders and sexual trauma have all been implicated as risk factors in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) such as incontinence and overactive bladder. The exact nature of these associations is unknown. ...
Can strep throat cause OCD, Tourette syndrome?
Sep 30, 2009 |
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New research shows that streptococcal infection does not appear to cause or trigger Tourette syndrome or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The research is published in the September 30, 2009, online issue of Neurology®, the me ...
Depression and anxiety disorders of adolescents are not the same thing
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Adolescent depression and anxiety disorders are two distinct psychiatric disorders, according to Dr. William W. Hale III (a researcher of the Langeveld Institute for the Study of Education and Development in Childhood and ...
Protected fear memories
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Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest issue of Science, researchers from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland, show how a class of proteins surrounding nerve cells allows fear memories to persis ...
Shocked by therapies: psychologists reject sexual reorientation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2009 |
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US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.
Brain emotion circuit sparks as teen girls size up peers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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What is going on in teenagers' brains as their drive for peer approval begins to eclipse their family affiliations? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls ...
Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is stored in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. Fear conditioning is a form of Pavlovian, or associative, ...
Family history predicts presence and course of psychiatric disorders
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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A family history of depression, anxiety, alcohol dependence or drug dependence is associated with the presence of each condition and also may predict its course and prognosis, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of ...
Research Finds Bodybuilders With Similar Body Image Concerns, Whether or Not They Use Steroids
Jun 29, 2009 |
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When it comes to characteristics associated with muscle dysmorphia, there is no difference between bodybuilders who use steroids and those who do not, a University of Arkansas researcher found.
New mechanisms of action found for drugs used to treat anxiety disorders
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the course of his or her life, every seventh German will develop an anxiety disorder that will require treatment. Standard anti-anxiety medications (anxiolytics) are based on the benzodiazepine ...
Log on to beat the Black Dog (w/Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 10, 2009 |
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In a discovery that could lead to new treatment approaches for depression, researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have shown that internet-based therapy programs are as effective as face-to-face therapies ...
When adult patients have anxiety disorder, their children need help too
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Jun 01, 2009 |
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In what is believed to be the first U.S. study designed to prevent anxiety disorders in the children of anxious parents, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have found that a family-based program reduced symptoms ...
New mouse model of depression/anxiety enhances understanding of antidepressant drugs
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2009 |
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A recent study finds that the antidepressant effects of drugs like Prozac involve both neurogenesis-dependent and -independent mechanisms, a finding that may lead to development of better treatments for depression and anxiety. ...
