Top Research Papers on Anxiety

(Reprinted and permission from Lancet 2016; 388: 3048-59).

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Anxiety is a common but serious condition that affects millions of people worldwide, impacting how they feel, think, and handle daily activities. This article explores all important aspects of anxiety, serving as a valuable resource for patients, their loved ones, and the general public. The book begins with an introduction to anxiety, explaining its nature and significance. It then covers the various types of anxiety disorders, patterns of anxiety, and the difference between normal mood changes and clinical anxiety. The symptoms and causes of anxiety are discussed in detail, along with the va...

A panic attack causes you to feel great anxiety and uncertainty in a situation that normally does not bother you, and the ripple effect of similar attacks can occur for several hours.

Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear. Everyone has feelings of anxiety from time to time. It is a natural reaction to situations we find threatening or difficult, such as moving house or money problems. Usually anxiety disappears when the situation changes, or if we get used to the situation or can move away from it. But some people become anxious for long periods of time and for no clear reason. This can make life difficult and may affect your work and social life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) CBT is a very effective treatment for anxiety. During CBT, the unhealthy thinking patterns that create anxiety are identified, and challenged. Oftentimes, CBT will also include components of exposure therapy and relaxation skills. Exposure Therapy During exposure therapy, the therapist and their client create a plan to gradually face anxietyproducing situations, thus breaking the cycle of avoidance. With enough exposure, the anxiety loses its power, and the symptoms diminish.

In recent years there has been a metamorphosis in the study of anxiety in children. Once a concept primarily of clinical interest and of central scientific importance only within psychoanalytic theory, anxiety has become a concept of ubiquitous theoretical relevance and the focus of considerable systematic research with normal children. While the causes of this transformation are diverse, two factors seem especially implicated. These are the increasing interest of methodologically sophisticated researchers in testing psychoanalytic hypotheses concerning the interrelationships between affective...

This is a study of the unlikely “career” of anxiety in nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. Anxiety is an affect, something more subtle, sometimes more persistent, than an emotion or a passion. It lies at the intersection of embodiment and cognition, sensation and emotion. But anxiety also runs like a red thread through European thought, beginning from receptions of Kant’s transcendental project. Like a symptom of the quest to situate and give life to the philosophical subject, like a symptom of an interrogation that strove to take form in European intellectual culture, angst (from an...

From an evolutionary perspective, anxiety can be considered as a psychological hazard-detection system. In uncertain environments, the costs of responding to false cues of danger are often miniscule as compared to those resulting from undetected threats. Therefore, the anxiety response has evolved a bias towards false alarms under conditions of uncertainty. We discuss general and specific types of anxiety responses, underlining how the nature of these are often determined by the particular types of threats in the environment.

ences in the frequency with which the major diag nostic categories figure among U.K. and U.S. mental hospital admissions. A good initial hypothesis was that the discrepancies were due to differences in diagnostic habits on the two sides of the Atlantic, and the results show that this is indeed practically the whole story. Such differences as still remain, after the axe of diag nostic reliability has been truly swung, are likely to reflect differences in the availability of psychiatric facilities, admission policies, the existence of a National Health Service here, and the like. The reliability...

Anexiety, apart from panic disorder, attracts little research attention. Such major publications as do occur are largely devoted to neuropharmacological aspects of the topic. Psychotherapeutic management of anxiety is seriously neglected and the reasons for this are uncertain. This review represets studies relating anxiety to physical illness. Finally, some aspects of the measurement of anxiety are considered.

This engagingly written survey covers the history of anxiety disorders and current approaches to their definition and treatment. Anxiety disorders are significant mental health illnesses that impair lives and cost society millions of dollars in health care expenses and lost productivity. Greater awareness of anxiety disorders is essential for both the general public and health professionals if those who suffer from them are to be identified, receive proper treatment, and have a chance at leading fulfilling lives. To that end, Anxiety begins with a historical overview of the ways in which anx...

In his monthly column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr discusses the “epidemic of anxiety” that is spreading from health‐risk information consistently reported by the media to the public and the need for non‐contradictory “good science” standards of reporting.

Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare on 1 February 1917 created a domino effect in the musical world, as Walter Damrosch and other conductors rushed to assert their patriotism by adding “The Star-Spangled Banner” to their concerts. Debates about German music revolved around issues of internationalism in classical music. The management of the Metropolitan Opera gave assurances that its German singers and European repertoire would not be impacted by future political events. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the most beloved German singer in America, suffered potentially career-ending i...

The authors betray their background by stressing "image contrast" more than the possible functional implications of being able to determine regional brain sodium content, and it is not made clear how this technique could be exploited to investigate ischaemic brain disease.

This brochure talks about anxiety disorders, outlining the main types, possible causes, treatment options and suggestions on where to go for help.

In the standard ICD-10 system, anxiety comes as one of the phobic anxiety disorders, as ‘ episodic paroxysmal anxiety ’ (i.e. panic disorder), as generalized anxiety disorder and even as mixed anxiety and depressive disorder.

Investigating the relationship between perceived social support and both anxiety and depression in UK-based pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the processes through which social support may exert its effects on depression and anxiety and highlight potential therapeutic targets for interventions.

Initiated as part of the ongoing deliberation about the nosological structure of DSM, this review aims to evaluate whether the anxiety disorders share features of responding that define them and make them distinct from depressive disorders, and/or that differentiate fear disorders from anxious‐misery disorders. The review covers symptom self‐report as well as on‐line indices of behavioral, physiological, cognitive, and neural responding in the presence of aversive stimuli. The data indicate that the anxiety disorders share self‐reported symptoms of anxiety and fear; heightened anxiety and fear...

Twenty cases are described in which treatment has been by once-weekly out-patient psychotherapy for a maximum period of six months, the patient having been informed of the length of this fixed term from the start.