Hazardous drinking is common among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and associated with numerous negative health consequences. Despite the well-established negative effects of hazardous drinking among PLWHA, scholarly work has neglected to explore the role of such drinking in regard to anxiety/depressive symptoms and HIV symptom expression. The current study investigated associations betwee...

BACKGROUND Affective disorders are associated with comorbidity of depression and anxiety symptoms. Positron emission tomography resting-state studies in affective disorders have generally failed to isolate specific symptom effects. Emotion provocation studies in healthy volunteers have produced variable results, due to differences in experimental paradigm and instructions. METHODS To better d...

Theoretical models of persecutory delusions have emphasized the impact of reasoning biases and negative emotion at the early stages of symptom formation. However, the causal mechanisms remain unclear. This study tests the hypothesis that state anxiety will increase paranoid ideation and that this increase will be moderated by the level of individual vulnerability and mediated by the tendency to...

Early adverse events have been associated with increased rates of substance abuse and depression. To investigate the association between early adverse events and comorbid substance abuse in schizophrenia patients, early life stress, depressive symptoms, positive and negative symptoms, anxiety, and cognitive function were measured in an age-, sex-, and race-matched sample of 40 schizophrenia pat...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare alexithymia, anxiety, depression and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and psychiatric patients. materials and methods: this was a comparative study. study subjects consisted of 210 individuals; 129 patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) who referred to the psychos...

OBJECTIVE To assess the co-morbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other anxiety disorders in child and adolescent mood disorders. METHODS A total of 100 patients aged < 18 years with mood disorders according to the DSM-IV-TR were screened for OCD and other anxiety disorders using Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime vers...

objective: several studies have shown that following disasters, major depressive disorder is the most common psychiatric disorder that occurs with posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd). comorbidity of anxiety symptoms have also been shown. the objective of this study was to show the comorbidity of depressive and anxiety symptoms in adolescent survivors of bam earthquake. method: in a case–contro...

A COMPARISON OF BRIEF, SINGLE-SESSIONS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND RELAXATIONIMEDITATION ON AFFECTIVE RESPONSES OF FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES Paul G. Salmon December 8, 2003 This study compared brief, single sessions of physical activity (P A, self-paced treadmill walking) and relaxation/meditation (RIM, the 'Body Scan') on positive and negative affect and anxiety measures in female undergraduates. Bot...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between affective and neuroendocrine abnormalities, commonly observed in multiple sclerosis, with inflammatory disease activity. DESIGN Cross-sectional design. Twenty-three patients with definite relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and age- and sex-matched control subjects were investigated. Depression and anxiety were assessed using structured inte...