منابع مشابه
Social anxiety disorder.
Our understanding of social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia) has moved from rudimentary awareness that it is not merely shyness to a much more sophisticated appreciation of its prevalence, its chronic and pernicious nature, and its neurobiological underpinnings. Social anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder; it has an early age of onset--by age 11 years in about 50% ...
متن کاملSocial anxiety disorder.
Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 28-year-old man reports feeling anxious and self-conscious around people in school, work, and social situations since his early teens. He appears shy and, on questioning, describes avoidance of speaking up in work meetings, attending social gatherings, and dating. He desperately wants to be more socially active but fears he will appear nervous a...
متن کاملUnmasking social anxiety disorder.
Shyness and self-consciousness are related constructs describing a tendency for some people to fear and avoid the scrutiny of others. In some cases, these characteristics are so pronounced that the individual shuns most forms of interpersonal contact or endures these encounters only with intense discomfort. Such people suffer from what is alternately referred to as “social anxiety disorder” or ...
متن کاملSocial anxiety disorder.
As defined in the DSM-IV-TR (1), social anxiety disorder (SAD), or social phobia, is now well recognized as a prevalent and significantly impairing disorder with an onset early in life. Since Liebowitz and colleagues’ commentary regarding the neglect of SAD in the contemporary literature (2), there has been considerable research into the nature of SAD, its natural history, its biological and en...
متن کاملGaze perception in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder
Clinical observations suggest abnormal gaze perception to be an important indicator of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Experimental research has yet paid relatively little attention to the study of gaze perception in SAD. In this article we first discuss gaze perception in healthy human beings before reviewing self-referential and threat-related biases of gaze perception in clinical and non-clin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370505000601