objective: considering reports on the comorbidities of some psychiatric disorders with epilepsy and in view of some variability in results and lack of needed data in the iranian population, this study aimed at a further systematic evaluation of various major psychiatric disorders in epileptic patients and compared the results with a control group. method: in this study, to assess mood, anxiety,...

BACKGROUND Excessive fear of scrutiny is a defining feature of social anxiety disorder. Eye contact may trigger feelings of being scrutinized, and although eye contact is commonly feared in persons with social anxiety disorder, it has been studied little. The purpose of this study was to characterize fear and avoidance of eye contact in patients with social anxiety disorder and in nonpatient sa...

Research suggests that disgust may be linked to the etiology of some anxiety-related disorders. The present investigation reviews this literature and employs separate meta-analyses of clinical group comparison and correlational studies to examine the association between disgust proneness and anxiety-related disorder symptoms. Meta-analysis of 43 group comparison studies revealed those high in a...

The role of anxiety has been emphasized in etiological/maintenance models of anorexia nervosa. This study identified daily patterns of anxiety in anorexia nervosa and examined the likelihood of the occurrence of eating disorder behaviors in each trajectory, the daily temporal distribution of eating disorder behaviors in each trajectory, and the extent to which the tendency to exhibit particular...

Both insomnia and anxiety are common complaints, but while insomnia is a diagnostic criterion for several mental disorders, anxiety is not a criterion for primary insomnia. Numerous studies have shown a high rate of co-morbidity between anxiety disorders and insomnia. The relationship is bi-directional since insomnia contributes to the development of anxiety disorders and anxiety results in ins...

objective: we aimed to conduct a review to investigate the prevalence of anxiety disorders among iranian children and adolescents.we systematically reviewed the literature up to june 2014. method: we searched three persian databases (magiran, iranmedex and sid) and three english databases: pubmed, scopus and psycinfo. all original studies that investigated the current prevalence of anxiety in a...

The objective of this work is To investigate the prevalence, comorbidities, impairment, and treatment-seeking of social anxiety disorder in the Chinese military personnel. Military personnel (n=11,527) were surveyed from May to August 2007 using a multistage whole cohort probability sampling method. A Chinese version of the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview ...

OBJECTIVE A large and well-characterized sample of individuals with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa from the Price Foundation collaborative genetics study was used to determine the frequency of anxiety disorders and to understand how anxiety disorders are related to state of eating disorder illness and age at onset. METHOD Ninety-seven individuals with anorexia nervosa, 282 with bulimia ...