background and aims: students experience some degrees of mental disorders during their life. therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors of mental disorders among the secondary school students in ilam, iran. methods: this is a cross sectional study, carried out among the secondary school students in ilam, iran. we assessed 841 students including 446 m...

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 eating correctly, qu...

the goal of this talk will be to familiarize the audience with the nature and prevalence of anxiety disorders and document their impact on society. anxiety is the most common form of psychopathology affecting an estimated one in four people at some point during their lifetimes. in comparison to all types of diseases and injuries, a 2013 jama report indicated that anxiety disorders were the fift...

advances in the treatment anxiety, trauma, and emotional disorders have been the focus of numerous international research efforts, including transdiagnostic approaches, internet-delivered treatments, and combined medication and cognitive-behavioral strategies. recent research have identified emerging strategies for improving immediate efficacy, availability and dissemination, treatment engageme...

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...

evidence has been accumulating for some time regarding the reduced life-expectancy experienced by people living with a mental illness. in developed world settings this can involve a two-decade reduction in life expectancy, whilst in the developing world the gap may be as high as thirty years. whilst genetic risk factors and suicide contribute to this ‘scandal of premature mortality’, modifiable...

neurogenesis occurs throughout life in several regions of the brain. in this lecture, a new sight for the role of the dentate gyrus and adult hippocampal neurogenesis in anxiety disorders will be discussed. the region that has obtained the most attention for its involvement in the neurogenesis of affective and anxiety disorders are the hippocampal and dentate gyrus. evidence strongly suggests t...

anxiety disorders are the most common reasons for referring to specialized clinics. if the response to stress changed, anxiety can be greatly controlled. the most obvious effect of stress occurs on circulatory system especially through sweating. the electrical conductivity of skin or in other words galvanic skin response (gsr) which is dependent on stress level is used; beside this parameter pe...