Chair: Stuart Montgomery, Barbara van Zwieten-Boot somatic symptoms that are characteristic for generalised anxiety. The largely nonspecific autonomic anxiety symptoms have been reduced in importance in DSMIV (AmeriCommittee: J. Angst, D.S. Baldwin, M. Bourin, R. Buller, can Psychiatric Association, 1994) with more weight given D. Hackett, S. Kasper, U. Kern, M. Lader, Y. Lecrubier, to nervous ...

The current study examines the association between peer behaviors, self-efficacy, and internalizing symptoms in a sample of 1545 children aged 11 to 13 years old who attended middle schools eastern Ukraine. We used structural equation modeling (SEM) examine role self-efficacy relationship child behaviors (anxiety, depression, somatic complaints) exposure prosocial antisocial friends among girls...

Anxiety symptoms are frequently present in patients with late-life depression. The designation "anxious depression" has been used to describe major depressive disorder (MDD) accompanied by clinically significant but subsyndromal anxiety symptoms. MDD may also present comorbid with diagnosable anxiety disorders, although this presentation is less common in late life. Diagnosis of anxious depress...

Introduction: Adolescence is a period of stressful transition for youths who have reading difficulties and they may be at risk for emotional and behavioral problems. Aim of the Study: Is to evaluate the reading difficulties among a group of adolescents and highlight the emotional and the behavioral symptoms associated with this difficulty. Subjects and Methods: Thirty-five poor reader adolescen...

Most of the scales we use in clinical psychiatry when measuring mood and anxiety were developed more that three decades ago. Thus the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) (Hamilton 1969) is still the internationally most used clinician-rated scale within states of clinical anxiety, whereas Spielberger’s State Anxiety Scale (Spielberger, Gorsuch & Lushene 1970) or the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) (Derog...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical manifestation of depressive disorder in elderly, and younger adults. METHODS To compare the clinical manifestation of depressive disorder, we evaluate 46 elderly (33 female, and 13 male, mean age 71.1) and 60 younger adults (40 female, and 20 male, mean age 44.5 years). All patients suffering from depressive disorders according to ICD-10. For evaluation and c...

purpose: to examine and compare the prevalence of different types of mental disorders among the administrative staff and warders of the central prison of sistan and baluchestan. materials and methods: the study population included all employees of zahedan general office of prisons. the sample consisted of 100 employees, of whom fifty individuals worked in various administrative units of zahedan...

OBJECTIVE To identify hormonal, psychological, and demographic predictors of symptom detection and accuracy of blood glucose estimation during mild hypoglycemia in adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS During an insulin-glucose clamp study, 53 adolescents and 19 young adults estimated blood glucose levels and reported symptoms at euglycemia and after 3...

BACKGROUND Physiologic responses of patients with anxiety disorders to everyday events are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To compare self-reports and physiologic recordings in patients with panic disorder (PD), patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and nonanxious controls during daily activities. DESIGN Participants underwent four 6-hour recording sessions during daily activities ...