ANXIETY DISORDER
A mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities
Examples of anxiety disorders include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Symptoms include stress that’s out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness.
Treatment includes counseling or medications, including antidepressants.
Overview from Wikipedia: (Anxiety Disorder)
Unidentified sources of stress, lasting more than six months.
World Patients: 4.5% of the total population.
Sex Ratio: M:2F
Age Onset: Ages 15-35.
Symptoms: Several different symptoms.
Causes: Unidentifiable, often a combination of genetic, environmental and psychological factors.
Medications: Several types.
Therapies: Cognitive Therapy-Identifying and reducing errors in thinking; identifying “triggers,” “mindfulness.”
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- A comparative study of depressive and anxiety symptoms, insomnia, and sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, or both (CO-ROSA): preliminary findings from a retrospective studyby Lourdes M DelRosso on December 20, 2024
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), restless legs syndrome (RLS), or both may exhibit varied manifestations of depressive and anxiety symptomatology, reflecting the complex interplay between sleep disturbances, neurotransmitter imbalances, and psychosocial stressors in these often overlapping conditions. The aim of this study was to compare depressive and anxiety symptomatology, insomnia severity, and sleepiness in these conditions. Patients were enrolled and subdivided into those with...
- The effect size of rs521851 in the intron of MAGI2/S-SCAM on HADS-D scores correlates with EAT-26 scores for eating disorders riskby Daria Pinakhina on December 20, 2024
An association between the MAGI2 (S-SCAM) intron variant rs521851 and depression symptoms, as measured by the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D), has been recently reported. The role of MAGI2 in depression has been linked to disruptions in the gut-brain axis. In this study, we investigated the association between rs521851 and HADS-D scores in an independent cohort of 380 individuals, consisting of 238 patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of depression and 142...
- Heart abnormality associates with a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders: Evidence from Mendelian randomization analysesby Xue-Shi Chen on December 20, 2024
Psychiatric disorders and heart abnormality are closely interconnected. Previous knowledge has been well-established that psychiatric disorders can lead to increased cardiovascular morbidity and even sudden cardiac death. Conversely, whether heart abnormality contributes to psychiatric disorders remains rarely studied. The work by Zhang et al pointed out that chronic heart failure had effects on the anxiety and depression (AD) severity, and indices including left ventricular ejection fraction,...
- Cognitive therapy for PTSD following multiple-trauma exposure in children and adolescents: a case seriesby Charlotte Smith on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that CT-PTSD is a safe, acceptable and feasible treatment for children with multiple-trauma PTSD, which warrants further evaluation.