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... Abstract Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is a common and typically long-standing medical condition, characterized by an excessive fear of being observed or evaluated negatively in social or performance situations. Efficacious interventions in acute treatment include cognitive...

... with phobia as well as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex was activated in concert with the amygdala, both in PTSD and in phobic states, suggesting a role in fear expression, rather than emotional control. Activity in emotion-regulating areas in the ventromedial...

... Comorbidity Survey Replication. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005;62:593-602. 4. Tillfors M, Furmark T, Ekselius L, Fredrikson M: Social phobia and avoidant personality disorder as related to parental history of social anxiety: a general population study. Behav Res Ther 2001;39:289-298. 5. Hettema JM, Neale MC...

... on the neuronal underpinnings of anxiety. In this section, the following anxiety disorders will be highlighted: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorder (PD), various forms of phobia, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and OCD. Both different and similar aspects of neurobiology in these disorders...

... and the important mental health consequences (e.g. depression, psychosocial withdrawal, phobia and suicide), integrating different perspectives (psychological or psychiatric – individual and familial –, genetic, nutritional, pediatric, gynecological). Adolescence is a critical period for the onset of EDs though...

... instruments to measure anxiety in PD, its frequency and clinical correlates are less well known. Future studies will focus on separating the generic anxiety disorders, such as generalized anxiety disorder and social phobia, from the anxiety symptoms that may be idiosyncratic to the motor symptoms of PD...

... into operational tools whereby individual patients could be identified. A set of12 syndromes was developed: health anxiety, thanatophobia, disease phobia, illness denial,persistent somatization, conversion symptoms, functional somatic symptoms secondary to apsychiatric disorder, anniversary reaction...

... with hypermobility [ 2 ]. To a certain extent, there were some indirect references about the relationship between ‘visceroptosis' and anxiety/phobias in the classical psychosomatic literature [ 3 ]. On the other hand, in 1980, Carlsson and Rundgren [ 4 ] found higher hypermobility scores in alcoholic patients...