ALLMedicine™ Anxiety Disorders Center

Aug 1st, 2021 - Depressive and anxiety disorders affect a significant proportion of the global population and constitute one of the highest disease burdens worldwide. Conventional pharmacological treatments are traditionally the first line of therapy for individu...

Aug 1st, 2021 - Events from spring to fall 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, hate crimes, and social unrest, may have impacted mental health, particularly mood and anxiety disorders. This study compares rates of positive screens for anxiety and depressive di...

Jul 31st, 2021 - Anxiety is characterized as the emotional response in anticipation of a future threat. This hypervigilant state comprehends a cascade of neuroendocrine and physiological processes, involving the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and hypothalamic-pitu...

Jul 31st, 2021 - Rumination and worry, both forms of repetitive negative thinking (RNT), have been implicated in the onset, maintenance, severity, and relapse risk of depression and anxiety disorders. Despite promising initial findings for internet-delivered inter...

Jul 29th, 2021 - To examine overlap and divergence of symptomatology in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with and without co-occurring Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and/or Anxiety Disorder by age and sex. Participants included 25,078 individuals re...

Jun 9th, 2021 - Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Research and Implications for Nursing Care.|2021|Beck CT,|

May 23rd, 2020 - Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. As reviewed in this guideline, both cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication have considerable em...

Aug 24th, 2017 - The management of psychiatric disorders in women is complicated by reproductive life cycle events. Psychiatric disorders can be initiated or exacerbated during times of hormonal change (such as menarche, the premenstrual period, the postpartum per...

May 15th, 2015 - Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are primary treatment options for major depressive and anxiety disorders. CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 polymorphisms can influence the metabolism of SSRIs, thereby affecting drug efficacy and safety. We summar...

Jan 1st, 2014 - To make evidence-based recommendations for screening, diagnosing, and treating psychiatric disorders in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). We reviewed the literature (1950 to August 2011) and evaluated the available evidence. Clinicians may...

May 8th, 2020 - The purpose of this protocol is to allow for the careful screening of patients and healthy volunteers for participation in research protocols in the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Lab (ETPB) at the National Institute of Mental Healt...

May 6th, 2020 - Objective A major component of understanding the pathogenesis of mood and anxiety disorders is expected to involve elucidation of abnormalities in brain structure and function associated with these conditions. Historically post-mortem histopatholo...

May 4th, 2020 - Approximately half the population of the United States will meet criteria for a diagnosable mental illness over their lifetime. Many of these individuals will experience changes in productivity, family relationships and self-esteem. Some will enga...

Apr 30th, 2020 - Objectives: The goal of this proposal is to study temperament and risk-taking as vulnerability factors for anxiety. Studies have documented that behaviorally inhibited (BI) children are at risk for anxiety disorders. This vulnerability may be asso...

Apr 27th, 2020 - High-generalized anxiety is a concomitant of many anxiety disorders and is often regarded as a vulnerability marker for these disorders. One characteristic of patients with anxiety disorders and high trait-anxious individuals is inappropriate expe...

Jun 15th, 2021 - Insomnia in childhood persists into adulthood and may raise the risk for internalizing disorders in young adults, new research indicates. However, insomnia symptoms in childhood that remit in the transition to adolescence do not confer increased r...

Apr 8th, 2021 - Separation anxiety plays a substantial role in suicidality in patients with mood and anxiety disorders, new research suggests. Results of a study that included 500 outpatients with mood or anxiety disorders showed adult separation anxiety disorder...

Mar 30th, 2021 - A five-minute, easy-to-administer screen in toddlers accurately predicts subsequent anxiety, providing an opportunity for early intervention to head off this potentially debilitating disorder. Investigators found the Fear and Shyness scales of the...

Mar 4th, 2021 - Takeaway This review found a high prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in the anxiety disorder population and evidence that suggest ED may be more severe in this population. However, the evidence was limited because of the high heterogeneity be...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Since the publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) opioid guideline in March 2016, there has been a substantial drop in the prescription rate for these medications ― except for patients at highest risk for opioid abu...