Background: According to the brain-behavioral systems theory, behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation systems contribute to the development of many psychopathological conditions. Given that anxiety and depression are the most common emotional disorders and the fact that they are highly overlapping, the aim of this study was to compare the brain-behavioral systems in the...

background: hypoactive sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual disorder among women, which interferes with their various functions. activity of brain-behavioral and psychological distress systems are considered among factors affecting sexual function. objectives: the present study aimed to compare women with hypoactive sexual desire and normal women in terms of brain-behavioral and psy...

BACKGROUND Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is a complex genetic disorder with a variable clinical presentation that can include cardiac, neural, immunological, and psychological issues. Previous studies have measured elevated anxiety and depression in children with 22q11.2DS. Comorbity of anxiety and depression is well established in the pediatric literature but the nature of c...

objective : the present study is investigating the attribution style in patients with the anxiety and depression comorbidity. method: subjects are 26 patients with major depression, 25 patients with generalized anxiety disorder, 17 patients with comorbidity of anxiety and depression, and 30 normal individuals. the aparatus used in the study for data collecting were beck depression inventory, be...

aim and background: asthma is a chronic illness that can severely affect people's lives. the aim of this study was to compare anxiety, depression, brain behavioural systems (bis-bas), coping styles, anger and hostility among people with and without asthma. methods and materials: fifty women with asthma attending shahid motahhari specialized clinic in shiraz and 50 normal women were selected usi...

Depressive disorder, or depression, is one of the most common psychiatric diseases affecting millions worldwide. Anxiety disorders are also common. Most patients with anxiety refer to general practitioners signs vegetative dysfunction. per se occurs in 40% and associated depression (mixed anxiety-depressive disorder) IN 26%. Comorbidity relatively high, extent this comorbidity changes aging. Th...

cognitive (Mathews & MacLeod, 2005), behavioral genetic (Middeldorp et al., 2005), specifi c genetic (Leonardo & Hen, 2006), psychophysiological (McNaughton & Corr, 2004), and neurochemical levels (Heim & Nemeroff , 2001). Th is chapter reviews the research on comorbid anxiety disorders and depression, while raising some methodological and clinical issues relevant to future research. Prior to e...

introduction: emotion regulation therapy (ert) is an in-progress treatment developed for generalized anxiety disorder (gad) comorbid with major depressive disorder (mdd) based on ameliorating dysfunctions in emotion regulation strategies. however, ert is a newly evolved treatment and has not yet been examined among iranian samples. therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the eff...

Research suggests that a history of childhood anxiety correlates with and predicts adolescent depression. The present review synthesizes current knowledge of relations between childhood anxiety and adolescent depression, focusing on the possibility that primary anxiety in childhood may cause secondary depression in adolescents. Across existing studies, evidence strongly supports childhood anxie...