Topic Page: Anxiety Disorders
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Publications About Anxiety Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Fact Sheet)
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Learn about how anxiety disorders affect children and adolescents and the direction of future research. - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: When Unwanted Thoughts Take Over
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A brochure on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that explains the signs, symptoms, and treatments. En Español - Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): When Worry Gets Out of Control
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A brochure on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) that explains the signs, symptoms, and treatment. En Español - Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder): Always Embarrassed
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A brochure on social phobia that explains the signs, symptoms, and treatments. En Español - Panic Disorder: When Fear Overwhelms
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A brochure on Panic Disorder that explains the signs, symptoms and treatments. En Español
Science News About Anxiety Disorders
- Bullying Exerts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood
- Science Update
Once considered a childhood rite of passage, bullying lingers well into adulthood. Bullies and victims alike are at risk for psychiatric problems such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and suicide when they become adults, reported a study partially funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) that was published in the April issue of JAMA Psychiatry.
- NIMH’s Dr. Aleksandra Vicentic: Sleep Brain Wave Key to Conquering Fear Memories
- Science Update
An NIMH-funded research study in rats identifies a specific group of cells in the brainstem whose activation during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep helped in eradicating unwanted memories, paving the way for future therapeutics for these disorders.
- Brain Imaging Predicts Psychotherapy Success in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder
- Science Update
Brain imaging might soon predict which treatment options would work best for patients with social phobia.
- Switching Off a Specific Brain Region Can Alter Ingrained Habits in Rats
- Science Update
Old habits may die hard, but we might be able to turn them off by targeting a specific brain region. Such a discovery could help us find better ways of controlling addiction or certain mental disorders like obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Brain Hubs Boil When Hoarders Face Pitching Their Own Stuff
- Press Release
In patients with hoarding disorder, parts of a decision-making brain circuit under-activated when dealing with others’ possessions, but over-activated when deciding whether to keep or discard their own things.
Meeting Summaries About Anxiety Disorders
- Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care
- May 07, 2009 – May 08, 2009
Bethesda, Maryland
A two-day meeting convened in May 2009 educated participants on essential components of care for women with perinatal mood disorders - Cognition and Stress: Advances in Basic and Translational Research
- July 24, 2007 – July 25, 2007
Bethesda, Maryland
In July 2007, the NIMH Cognition Working Group held a multidisciplinary workshop to identify major trends, gaps, and opportunities in behavioral and biological research on cognition and stress. - Optimizing fMRI Approaches to Adolescent Mental Disorders
- August 17, 2006 – August 18, 2006
Rockville, Maryland
On August 17–18, 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health sponsored a workshop that brought together researchers involved in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study adolescent mental disorders and normal development, as well as scientists involved in integrating fMRI data with data from other imaging modalities. The goal was to address issues involved in such research toward the goal of optimizing study designs and approaches to improve our understanding of the neural bases of these disorders