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Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental health conditions defined by excessive, persistent fear or worry that is disproportionate to actual threat and that impairs daily functioning. They include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social and specific phobias, and related presentations, and they overlap wi…

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

Overview

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental health conditions defined by excessive, persistent fear or worry that is disproportionate to actual threat and that impairs daily functioning. They include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social and specific phobias, and related presentations, and they overlap with trauma- and stressor-related conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Symptoms span cognitive features of apprehension and rumination alongside autonomic arousal manifesting as palpitations, sweating, trembling, and breathlessness. The neurobiology implicates limbic and prefrontal circuits, dysregulated fear conditioning, and neuropeptide and neurotransmitter systems, including cholecystokinin and serotonergic signalling, while developmental and perinatal stressors may shape later anxiety-like behaviour. Anxiety frequently co-occurs with depression, chronic pain, and serious physical illness, and gender differences influence presentation and diagnosis. Evidence-based management combines psychological therapies such as cognitive-behavioural and cognitive-analytic approaches with pharmacotherapy and adjunctive interventions. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to this area, including the mechanisms of anxiety explored through network pharmacology, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, the role of cholecystokinin in fear and anxiety, early-life pain as a trigger for persistent anxiety-like behaviour, biofeedback and heart-rate-variability interventions, complementary approaches to anxiety reduction, and cognitive-analytic therapy in patients with breast cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder, reflecting both mechanistic and clinical perspectives.

Research published in this journal

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

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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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Epilepsy Journal.

Journal editorial board
Rwei-Ling Yu · Taiwan Siuly Siuly · Australia Pasquale Parisi · Italy

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