December 2018

Up to 30% of individuals will suffer in their lifetime from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and posttraumatic stress disorders that are characterized by deficits in fear responses and extinction. Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and serotonin reuptake…

Historically, BT can be divided into three generations. The first generation is in part a rebellion against prevailing therapeutic concepts of the day (the Psychoanalytic and Humanistic approaches). Early interventions focused directly on reducing problematic…

It's not easy being the poster child for depressed physicians, but Alice Flaherty wears the role with aplomb. She relishes the opportunity to share her experiences with the world. Flaherty was featured in a recent…

According to this new survey, depression and anxiety are far more common among graduate students than in the general population. This should surprise no one at all, but it’s good to have some quantitative data…

It’s likely you’ve heard of CBT, one of the most widely used types of treatment for anxiety, and many other conditions. It’s called an evidence-based therapy as it’s been shown in numerous rigorous studies to…

A person suffering from an anxiety disorder experiences neurology-based changes in mood and bodily functions that are discussed in more detail in this article. As with anxiety, various personality traits and emotional responses are by-products…

Mark Zimmerman, MD, professor of psychiatry at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island, presented a review on controversies related to both categorizing disease severity and treatment of depression at the US Psych Congress 2018,…

Predictors of long-term cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outcomes in adolescents treated for mixed anxiety disorders may have been identified, according to findings from a study published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders. Researchers conducted a…

Uno studio ha permesso attraverso una valutazione encefalografica di confrontare l'efficacia degli antidepressivi e della CBT nel trattamento dell'ansia. Uno studio condotto dai ricercatori dell’Università dell’Illinois a Chicago, pubblicato recentemente sulla rivista Neuropsypharmacology, ha trovato…

The most important thing to know about low self-confidence is that it is not your fault. The factors that contribute to low self-confidence combine and interact differently for each person. Your genes, cultural background, childhood…