Anxiety is one of the most common psychopathological symptoms. It based on feeling a strong threat without triggering real stimulus. They are often accompanied by somatic symptoms, making it difficult to function normally and carry out daily activities. The causes anxiety disorders include genetic environmental factors. can take form of, but not limited to, generalized disorder panic disorder, ...

OBJECTIVE Somatic hypervigilance describes a clinical presentation in which people report more, and more intense, bodily sensations than is usual. Most explanations of somatic hypervigilance implicate altered information processing, but strong empirical data are lacking. Attention and working memory are critical for information processing, and we aimed to evaluate brain activity during attentio...

Craving is an uncontrollable impulse to assume abusive substances, often associated with intense anxiety, dysphoria, irritability, agitation, impulsive or explosive behaviours, as well as with somatic symptoms such as headache and asthenia. Craving can be separated into two components: an ‘appetitive craving’, that is searching for the abusive substance as a source of pleasure, and an ‘aversive...

the aetiology behind odor-related chronic somatic symptoms (o-rcss) is unknown, although both immunological and psychiatric causes have been suggested. the aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of self-reported asthma and hay fever and psychiatric symptoms in individuals having o-rcss compared to individuals with similar chronic somatic symptoms (css) which were not odors-related,...

Anxiety is one of the symptoms in chronic schizophrenic patients. Past research studies show that psychodrama as a group therapy is effective in treatment and rehabilitation of psychological disorders. The aim of this study is to explore the effect of psychodrama on the reduction of anxiety in schizophrenic patients. 26 male hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients were randomly assigned int...

Comorbidity of depressive and anxiety disorders is common remains incompletely comprehended. This paper summarizes findings from the Netherlands Study Depression Anxiety (NESDA) regarding prevalence, temporal sequence, course longitudinal patterns; sociodemographic, vulnerability neurobiological indicators; functional, somatic mental health indicators comorbidity. Narrative synthesis earlier NE...

OBJECTIVES To assess depression, anxiety, and alcohol abuse in a Gastroenterology ICU, and the level of its detection by the staff. METHOD All patients consecutively admitted to the ICU during a six-month period, 18 or above, and staying ≥ 24 hours, were assessed with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the CAGE. Doctors and nurses assessed the type and severity of patients' ...