A key question in the classification of anxiety disorders is whether the DSM-IV classification system describes distinct useful categories. There is a great deal of overlap in clinical populations. You do not find many individual who have one unique disorder. Typically, someone with say panic disorder is likely to have one or more additional anxiety disorder such as social phobi
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September 22, 2010
The Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders
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August 25, 2010
What clients think CBT will be like and how it really is
People expect cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to be more prescriptive than it is, and therapists to be more controlling than they really are. That's according to a series of interviews with 18 clients who undertook 8 sessions (14 hours) of CBT to help with their diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder.Henny Westra and colleagues selected for interview nine clients whose therapy had ended po
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June 29, 2010
Overcoming Body Dysmorphic Disorder
A nose job to treat a mental health problem? Teeth whitening to overcome a severe anxiety disorder? These are just two procedures that people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) have traditionally turned to in order to deal with body-related concerns...
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February 25, 2010
Rwandan Genocide Survivors Provide New Insights Into Resilience and PTSD
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda resulted in the mass killing of up to one million people over the course of about 100 days. There can be no doubt or surprise then that some of the survivors developed posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, an anxiety disorder that can develop after witnessing or experiencing a traumatizing event, such as abuse, war, or natural disaster. However, even under stress as
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January 26, 2010
The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling?
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it
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November 19, 2009
Focusing on the “what ifs”: A practical guide to worry exposure
by Joye C. Anestis The empirically-supported treatment for pretty much any anxiety disorder involves some sort of exposure. For obsessive-compulsive disorder, it might be exposure to germs. For panic disorder, exposure to, say, hyperventilation. For PTSD, exposure to a traumatic...
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June 24, 2009
New mechanisms of action found for drugs used to treat anxiety disorders (PhysOrg)
(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 class of drugs. These calm the patient and quickly diminish feelings of anxiety.
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June 2, 2009
When Adult Patients Have Anxiety Disorder, Their Children Need Help Too
In what is believed to be the first US study designed to prevent anxiety disorders in the children of anxious parents, researchers have found that a family-based program reduced symptoms and the risk of developing an anxiety disorder among these children.
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