Anxiety-related disorders: An overview

Herbal Medicines and Anxiety Disorders : an overview

This review paper looks at all the herbal medicines and formulas in treating anxiety disorders. A thorough Pubmed and the Cochrane internet search was made for pharmacological and clinical evidence of herbal medicines with antianxiety action. Good evidence exists for the use of kava in the treatment of anxiety, while there is insufficient clinical evidence for the use of many other herbal medic...

Self-help interventions for anxiety disorders: an overview.

Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent and are associated with a marked impairment in quality of life and a huge economic cost to society. Unfortunately, a considerable number of people who struggle with anxiety do not seek or receive adequate treatment. Self-help interventions have been proposed to constitute a relatively cheap, effective, efficient, and low-threshold intervention for anxiety ...

Separation anxiety: an overview.

15.1 ANXIETY DISORDERS: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry CHAPTER 15. ANXIETY DISORDERS 15.1 ANXIETY DISORDERS: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric condition in the United States and in most other populations studied. Further, studies have persistently shown that they produce inordinate morbidity, utilization of health care services, and functional impairment. Recent studies also suggest that chronic anxiety disorder may increase the rate of cardiovascular-related mortality. Hence,...

Overview: an introduction to NASH and related fatty liver disorders

This chapter introduces the history, definitional and semantic issues, spectrum and general importance of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD). Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a form of metabolic liver disease in which fatty change (steatosis) is associated with lobular inflammation, hepatocyte injury and/or hepatic fibrosis. It comprises a pathogenic link in the chain of NAFLD tha...