p40: anxiety disorders signs in children

P40: Anxiety Disorders Signs in Children

It’s usual for children to feel anxious or concerned from time to time, such as when they’re starting school or kindergarten, or moving to a new area. Anxiety can make a child feel frightened, scared, shamefaced or embarrassed. Several of the signs to look out for in your child are: finding it hard to concentrate, not sleeping, or awakening in the night with bad dreams, not eat...

Signs of Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Chimpanzees

BACKGROUND In humans, traumatic experiences are sometimes followed by psychiatric disorders. In chimpanzees, studies have demonstrated an association between traumatic events and the emergence of behavioral disturbances resembling posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. We addressed the following central question: Do chimpanzees develop posttraumatic symptoms, in the form of abnorm...

Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

[Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents].

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric illnesses in children and adolescents. They are associated with significant distress and impairment. Most of the children and adolescents with anxiety disorders are not detected and only a minority receives adequate treatment. Anxious children and adolescents often follow a chronic course of disease with elevated risk of depressive disorders, su...

Threat perception abnormalities in children: the role of anxiety disorders symptoms, chronic anxiety, and state anxiety.

This study investigated the relative contribution of general (trait) anxiety and state anxiety to threat perception abnormalities in nonreferred children aged 8-13 years (N=299). Children were first asked to complete self-report measures of anxiety disorders symptoms and chronic anxiety. Next, they were individually interviewed using an ambiguous story paradigm from which a number of threat per...

P28: Neuroimaging in Anxiety Disorders

In recent years, the development of neuroimaging techniques such as high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), or single photon emission tomography (SPECT) has promoted the identification of structural and functional characteristics underlying mental disorders to a great extent. In anxiety disorders, recent...