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Cultural Factors in Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety Disorders. Cultural differences in the expression of anxiety have been documented. For instance, although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be diagnosed in American populations and Southeast Asian refugees, clinicians and researchers have found higher levels of dissociation among Southeast Asian refugees with PTSD. This may be due to the greater cultural acceptance of dissociative […]
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anxiety disorder characteristics and symptoms
Anxiety disorders are generally characterized by excessive worry and apprehension about the future. Specific anxiety disorders include obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, simple phobias, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Compared to schizophrenia and depression, we know little about the way culture influences anxiety disorders. This may be due to the rare occurrence of ‘‘pure’’ anxiety disorders. Because […]
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Anxiety Disorders articles about related to application
Application to Anxiety Disorders In an interesting extrapolation to psychopathology, McNaughton and Gray attribute GAD to excessive output from the SHS. Underscoring the information processing aspects of the SHS, they describe GAD as primarily a cognitive disorder that involves an excessive perception of threat and a subsequent suppression of approach and excessive avoidance of threat. […]
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Competing Conceptualizations of Anxiety
Competing Conceptualizations of Anxiety In a number of papers published in the 1970s, Gray proposed a ‘‘neuropsychological theory of anxiety’’ that draws on the motivational constructs described before. This early work can best be viewed as an attempt to understand, in terms of the constructs of learning theory, the common behavioral effects of those pharmacological […]
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genetic and environmental influences on depression and anxiety
Inclusion of Specific Environmental and Endophenotypic Variables in Behavior Genetic Models Standard behavior genetic analyses represent genetic and environmental influences as unspecif ied, anonymous, or ‘‘black box’’ variables. Kendler notes that the statistical power to detect shared environmental influences is low in such standard models, whereas incorporating specified environmental variables within a behavior genetic model […]
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is anxiety hereditary or learned
Several large-scale behavior genetic studies of anxiety disorders in adults have been conducted using DSMIII or DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria. Kendler, Neale, Kessler, Heath, & Eaves, using data from the same Virginia-based, adult female sample described before, conducted model-fitting analyses on liability to DSM-III generalized anxiety disorder and reported that the best fitting model included additive […]
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mood and anxiety disorders in men
The results of recent twin studies of mood and anxiety disorder symptoms across the life span suggest some differences in the etiology of these symptoms in childhood versus adulthood. Only a few twin studies hav been conducted with children and adolescents, so we will begin with a review of the more extensive adult findings. We […]
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Physical Symptoms Anxiety Disorders
Studies have shown considerable links between anxiety disorders and substance misuse, particularly alcohol, in terms of triggering feelings of anxiety but also as a form of self-medication.People with anxiety disorders may use alcohol or drugs to cope with their symptoms; however, alcohol and drug misuse may result in anxiety disorder. Links have also been shown […]
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Treatment Approaches for Anxiety Disorders
The treatment of anxiety disorders is variable and will be directly linked to thenature and severity of the anxiety being experienced by the person. As mentionedabove, anxiety is one of the most treatable psychiatric disorders. However, it mustalso be remembered that anxiety may coexist in the presence of other psychologicaldisorders, such as depression. All this […]
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Multivariate Behavior Genetic Studies of Mood and Anxiety
Disorder Symptoms Most multivariate behavior genetic contributions to the classification of mood and anxiety disorders have been based on three general approaches: (1) split an existing diagnostic category into subtypes and examine differences in the causes of the resulting subtypes; (2) look for common causes that cut across the symptoms of several diagnostic categories, using […]
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