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Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are a category of mental health conditions defined by excessive, persistent fear and worry that are disproportionate to circumstance and impair daily functioning. They include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and related presentations, and fre…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 43× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Anxiety disorders are a category of mental health conditions defined by excessive, persistent fear and worry that are disproportionate to circumstance and impair daily functioning. They include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, and related presentations, and frequently overlap with depression, trauma- and stress-related disorders, and physical illness. Their pathophysiology involves dysregulation of fear and threat circuitry, autonomic hyperarousal, and neurochemical signaling, with neuropeptides such as cholecystokinin implicated in fear and panic; symptoms span cognitive, emotional, and somatic domains. Diagnosis relies on clinical assessment, and management combines psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and increasingly complementary and integrative approaches, with attention to context-specific and underrecognized presentations. Research addresses anxiety disorders across populations, including perinatal and postpartum onset, comorbidity with cancer and chronic disease, and disparities in recognition. The peer-reviewed studies indexed under this topic examine network-pharmacology and experimental approaches to anxiety disorders, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, gender disparities in attention-deficit diagnosis, complementary treatment of anxiety, the role of cholecystokinin in fear and anxiety, anxiety in the context of pandemic and chronic illness, early-life experience and anxiety-like behavior, and suicide prevention approaches. Together they reflect investigation of the mechanisms, comorbidities, and treatment of anxiety disorders across clinical and psychological perspectives, with particular relevance to Women's Mental Health.

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 43 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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