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Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by excessive, persistent fear and worry together with physiological arousal that exceeds the demands of the situation and impairs functioning. The category includes generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias, and social anxiety…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 37× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Anxiety disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by excessive, persistent fear and worry together with physiological arousal that exceeds the demands of the situation and impairs functioning. The category includes generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias, and social anxiety disorder, each defined by the focus and pattern of the anxious response. Their neurobiology centers on hyperactivity within fear circuitry, particularly the amygdala and its connections, modulated by neuropeptides such as cholecystokinin and by dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and its cortisol output. These mechanisms link the subjective experience of fear to measurable autonomic and endocrine changes. Anxiety frequently emerges or intensifies during sensitive periods and in the context of other conditions: perinatal and postpartum presentations, early-life pain, and comorbidity with depression, trauma, and chronic medical illness are well recognized. Treatment is multimodal, combining psychotherapy, especially cognitive-behavioral approaches, with pharmacotherapy and with physiological self-regulation methods such as biofeedback and heart-rate-variability training. This journal publishes peer-reviewed research in this area, including studies of the neurobiology of fear and the role of cholecystokinin, perinatal and medically comorbid anxiety, and interventions ranging from psychological therapy to biofeedback and complementary techniques aimed at reducing anxiety and arousal.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386
2020

Mental Health in The Context of The COVID 19 Pandemic

Yadav RavinderCorresponding author
Medical Social Welfare Officer Department of Medical Record Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3367

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 37 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Anxiety Disorders, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Psychological Disorders.

Journal editorial board
Michael Klein · United States M. Camino Escolar-Llamazares · Spain Detlef Dietrich · Germany

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