Anxiety disorders can lead to uneasiness, apprehension and ultimately become manifest with compulsions and panic attacks. These disturbances may even be a component of other behavior or psychiatric disorders such as depression, mania or psychosis. The biological basis of emotional disorders are broad and can be the result of multiple components that involve cellular pathways as well as environm...

1 Acknowledgements The researcher would like to thank all those who participated in this research, and also Anne Davis for her patience and guidance during the study. In addition appreciation is forwarded to Esri Ireland who granted access to a subset of their customers already known to the researcher. 5 2 Abstract In the midst of recession, this paper examines previous research which indicated...

Previous studies have shown that stress, through secretion of stress hormones, increases the consolidation of memory while it exerts negative effects on memory retrieval. Other studies show that the process of memory retrieval serves as a reactivation mechanism whereby the memory trace that is reactivated during the retrieval process is once again sensitive to modifications by pharmacological o...

BACKGROUND Medical students have been found to report high levels of perceived stress, yet there is a lack of theoretical frameworks examining possible reasons. This cross-sectional study examines correlates of perceived stress in medical students on the basis of a conceptual stress model originally developed for and applied to the general population. The aim was to identify via structural equa...

background epilepsy is a chronic disease that affects the behavior and cognitive performance of children. in many cases, the emotional impacts of epilepsy on the family are neglected. besides the emotional distress, recurrent seizures may lead to irreversible effects on family members, especially parents. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of anxiety, stress and depressive d...

Despite reports documenting adverse effects of stress on police marriages, few empirical studies focus on actual emotional behaviors of officers and spouses. In this preliminary investigation, 17 male police officers and their non-police wives completed daily stress diaries for one week and then participated in a laboratory-based discussion about their respective days. Conversations were video-...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the associations between occupational stress, burnout and turnover intention and explore their associated factors among managerial staff in Guangzhou, China. METHODS This cross-sectional study recruited 288 managerial employees from a Sino-Japanese joint venture automobile manufacturing enterprise in Guangzhou. The questionnaire included question...