The relation between analogue generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) assessed the day before the events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), and long-term outcome was examined in 44 young adults who were directly exposed the following day to the terrorist attacks in New York City. After controlling for high exposure to the attacks, preattack analogue GAD was associated with greater social and work disabil...

BACKGROUND Mental health disease is under recognized in medical professionals. OBJECTIVE To screen medical students (MS), residents and fellows for major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) under the new era of work hour reform with age-matched controls from a large representative cross-sectional survey. METHODS We conducted an anonymous online survey at a medic...

BACKGROUND Physiologic responses of patients with anxiety disorders to everyday events are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To compare self-reports and physiologic recordings in patients with panic disorder (PD), patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and nonanxious controls during daily activities. DESIGN Participants underwent four 6-hour recording sessions during daily activities ...

Objective: The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between anxiety sensitivity (AS), irritability and intrusive thoughts (IT) and sleep problems in patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Methods: The study population consisted of all patients with GAD who referred to counseling and psychological centers in Isfahan, Iran, in 2015. A total of 49 patients wer...

Original drug classifications from the 1960s through the 1970s and into the 1980s emphasized that there were important distinctions between the antidepressants (e.g., tricyclic antidepressants) and the anxiolytics (e.g., benzodiazepines and buspirone) available at that time. This emphasis reflected the diagnostic notions prevalent at that time, which tended to dichotomize major depressive disor...

Research has demonstrated increased attention to negative social cues and reduced attention to positive social cues in generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD), but little is known about whether GSAD also involves differences in lower levels of visual processing. This study explored visual experience in GSAD compared to participants with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and healthy controls...

AIM The goal of this study was to investigate the relation between specific anxiety disorders and substance dependence, adjusting for potentially confounding demographic factors (e.g. sex) and comorbidity (e.g. alcohol dependence, major depression), among adults in the USA. METHODS Data were drawn from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), a nationally representative population sample of the...

AIM The aim of this research is to present the severity of the generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms and its correlation with neuroticism among patients suffering from somatic diseases. METHODS 184 subjects participated in the study: 45 inpatients undergoing haematological treatment (group 1), 46 inpatients from the internal ward (group 2), 48 patients infected with HCV prior to treatme...

BACKGROUND Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is the most prevalent anxiety disorder among the elderly and has high functional and cognitive morbidity. However, late-life GAD is relatively understudied and its functional neuroanatomy is uncharted. Several imaging studies have suggested abnormalities in the cognitive control systems of emotion regulation in anxiety disorders in young adults. The...

BACKGROUND Cognitive theorists relate anxiety disorders to the way in which emotional information is processed. The existing research suggests that patients with anxiety disorders tend to allocate their attention toward threat-related information selectively, and this may differ among different types of anxious subjects. The aim of this study was to explore attentional bias in patients with gen...