News tagged with social anxiety disorder


Social anxiety disorder a real issue in major league baseball

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs "all the time." But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to ...


Social phobics more affected by scowling faces

Social phobics more affected by scowling faces

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- See something disturbing? Maybe it's a scene from the nightly news of someone being beaten in a riot, or a person scowling at you in a crowd.





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Social anxiety disorder puts welfare recipients at risk for economic hardship

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women on welfare who suffer from social anxiety find it harder to work—and leave welfare—than women without the disorder, according to a new University of Michigan study.


Genetic predisposition may play a role in anxiety disorders

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Finnish scientists have identified genes that may predispose to anxiety disorders. Research conducted under the supervision of Academy Research Fellow Iiris Hovatta have focused on genes that influence human behaviour, and ...


Mouse genes guide search for human anxiety disorder genes

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created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

We are all familiar with the question - "Are you a man or a mouse?" What if the answer is "a little of both"? Because of the power of molecular genetics research in animals and the maturation of animal models, the path ...


Are anxiety disorders all in the mind?

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social ...


You Don't Have to Struggle With Social Anxiety

You Don't Have to Struggle With Social Anxiety

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created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To a certain extent, just about everyone has some sort of social anxiety -- from the reluctance to chat with an airplane seat mate to the nervousness that comes with public speaking.


Patients with anxiety think they have more physiological problems than they really have

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created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Granada, Spain, has proved that patients with serious anxiety disorders (panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder) ...


When adult patients have anxiety disorder, their children need help too

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created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Childhood anxiety disorders can and should be treated

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created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents should be recognized and treated to prevent educational underachievement and adult substance abuse, anxiety disorders and depression, says a nationally recognized child psychiatrist ...


Mind out of balance, body out of balance

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created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many of the 40 million American adults who suffer from anxiety disorders also have problems with balance. As increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with anxiety, Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that ...


Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated

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created Mar 12, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study by researchers led by Kurt Kroenke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. reports that nearly 20 percent of patients seen by primary care physicians have at least ...



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