in human beings, the balance control is a result of an integration of physical and psychological factors and people show different reactions when feel anxious or face stability threatened conditions such as standing on an unstable surface. university students, particularly the female ones, are a group of the society who are prone to face anxieties. the current study focused on the effects of an...

abstract the aim of the present study was to compare defense mechanisms of patients with major depression, anxiety disorders, and normal individuals. a total of 224 individuals (87 depressed, 64 anxious, 73 normal) participated in this study, voluntarily. following a psychiatric diagnosis of the psychological disorders, all participants were asked to complete the defense style questionnaire (ds...

This study in 2002 determined the rate of anxiety and depression, and the associated social and environmental factors, among 87 randomly selected female medical students at a medical college in Lahore, Pakistan. Students completed the hospital anxiety and depression scale and a questionnaire about life events, social behaviour and past medical history. Overall, 43.7% of students reported anxiet...

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the work pattern of information technology professionals who had to shift from office home pattern. The comforts home, that they used enjoy, was now taken up by an space at and this potentially altered mental health status these professionals.Methods: A cross sectional study conducted among IT within age group 21-45 years working in Kerala. 2...

Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents are reviewed, including differential diagnosis, assessment of symptoms, family history data, developmental features, and clinical correlates. Findings indicate that 15.9% to 61.9% of children identified as anxious or depressed have comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders and that measures of anxiety and depression are highly correlated. Famil...

This paper explains in layperson’s terms how an agent-based model was used to investigate the hypothesis that culture evolves more effectively when novelty-generating creative processes are tempered by imitation processes that preserve proven successful ideas. Using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution we found that (1) the optimal ratio of inventing to imitating ranged from 1:1 to ...

Twenty-nine couples in which one partner was depressed, 21 couples in which one partner had an anxiety disorder, and 26 nondistressed control couples were compared on measures of (1) quality of life, stress, and social support; (2) family functioning; (3) marital functioning; and (4) relationship attributions. The depressed group had significant difficulties in all four domains. In contrast, th...