Calendar

«« Feb 2008 »»
S M T W T F S
         
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29

Search Box


HealthCentral Top Site Award

IBS Tales Hope Award

LinkBlog

[USA] Think Social Networks, Blogs Can’t Hurt You? Health insurers can use your on-line posts to avoid paying for treatment

Debunking the 'Chemical Imbalance' myth (pdf)

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Antidepressants (Note: requires registration of a valid email address)

Not Depressed, Just British!

  More

Contact

Mailing List

RSS Feeds








Translation

Disclaimer

All content within Anxiety Insights is provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your doctor or other health care professional.

Anxiety Insights is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a reader based on the content of this website.

Anxiety Insights is not liable for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites.

Always consult your doctor if you are in any way concerned about your health.

recommended links

Depression is Real's Down & Up Show
      Weekly audio-casts from the
      Depression Is Real Coalition

we support

Kiva.org - micro loans that change lives

Moving a Nation to Care : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops, by Ilona Meagher

No Longer Lonely.com

"just don't smoke"


"Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke."
                        Yul Brynner

Hit Counter

Total: 1,231,368
since: 14 May 2006

Admin console

Log-In

My Blog    My Profile

Leave Message

Add as neighbors






Blogion.com

Blog Flux Directory



Blogarama - The Blogs Directory

blog search directory

BlogTagstic - Blog Directory

Find Blogs in the Blog Directory



LS Blogs

Top Health Sites





Health Blogs - Blog Top Sites

Webloogle Blog Directory

Bloggapedia - Find It!

Latest tagged entries for 'SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER'


next »

“Love Hormone” may alleviate mental illnesses

Monday, 11 February 2008 7:08 A GMT+01
Gazing into your lover's eyes isn't only romantic; it may also mimic early attachments that forever alter your brain and body.

Abstract: Use of benzodiazepines and SSRIs in middle-aged and older adults with anxiety disorders

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 7:20 A GMT+01
Purpose of this study was to examine the use of benzodiazepines and SSRIs/SNRIs over nine years of follow-up in middle-aged and older adults with diagnoses of panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, social phobia, or generalized anxiety disorder

Abstract: A randomized controlled trial of D-Cycloserine enhancement of exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder

Monday, 14 January 2008 5:12 A GMT+01
Pilot research has suggested that D-cycloserine (DCS) enhances treatment outcomes for anxiety disorders when employed as an adjunct to exposure therapy (ET).

Study finds behavior therapy better than drugs for adolescent social anxiety

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 8:46 A GMT+01
A behavioral therapy designed to treat children diagnosed with social phobia helped them overcome more of their symptoms than the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), according to a study

Abstract: Social fears and social phobia in the USA

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 8:08 A GMT+01
Despite heightened awareness of the clinical significance of social phobia, information is still lacking about putative subtypes, functional impairment, and treatment-seeking.

Abstract: Empirically supported psychological interventions for social phobia in adults

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 8:08 A GMT+01
Social phobia is a chronic disorder that results in substantial impairment. We conducted a qualitative review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of psychological interventions for social phobia.

Abstract: SET-C versus fluoxetine [Prozac®] in the treatment of childhood social phobia.

Monday, 26 November 2007 8:26 A GMT+01
Objective: To determine the efficacy of fluoxetine, pill placebo, and Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children (SET-C) for children and adolescents with social phobia.

Abstract+: Social anxiety disorder: Psychobiological and evolutionary underpinnings

Monday, 5 November 2007 8:49 A GMT+01
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) also know as social phobia is increasingly recognized as a highly prevalent and disabling psychiatric disorder.

Abstract: Panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and a possible medical syndrome previously linked to chromosome 13

Saturday, 27 October 2007 9:34 A GMT+01
Several studies have identified increased medical problems among individuals with panic disorder (PD). We previously found that specific conditions-interstitial cystitis (IC), mitral valve prolapse (MVP), migraines, and thyroid disorders

Sowing the seeds of change

Saturday, 27 October 2007 9:31 A GMT+01
A medical director at the Whitby Mental Health Centre is carving out a name for himself with a new study linking pumpkin seeds to the effective treatment of social anxiety disorder.

Social anxiety video game cuts players' stress hormone levels

Wednesday, 24 October 2007 10:27 A GMT+01
A video game designed by McGill University researchers to help train people to change their perception of social threats and boost their self-confidence has now been shown to reduce the production of the stress hormone cortisol.

Socially anxious have heightened sensitivity to subliminal threat, fear cues

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 9:40 A GMT+01
Reading the face of a person who is trying to conceal fear or other emotions is tricky business, according to a new study of electrical activity in the brain.

Therapist assisted self-help effective for social anxiety

Thursday, 11 October 2007 9:27 A GMT+01
Research from Australia's Macquarie University has found therapist assisted self-help treatments for social anxiety disorder/social phobia may be just as effective as more traditional, therapist only treatments.

Abstract: Comparisons of psychopharmacological and psychological treatments for anxiety disorders

Wednesday, 26 September 2007 9:55 A GMT+01
A number of meta-analyses have led to contradictory results regarding the efficacy of the psychological and pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders.

Abstract: Teen social anxiety disorder a risk factor for later depression

Tuesday, 7 August 2007 8:53 A GMT+01
Epidemiological findings demonstrating an increased risk for individuals with social anxiety disorder to develop depression have been challenged by discrepant findings from prospective longitudinal examinations in childhood and early adolescence.

Hormone spray could banish shyness

Thursday, 19 July 2007 8:54 A GMT+01
It was hailed as the "trust" hormone, then the "mind-reading" hormone. Now it seems oxytocin may also help people with social phobia to interact.

Abstract: Treating adolescents with social anxiety disorder in school

Sunday, 24 June 2007 9:17 A GMT+01
This study evaluates the relative efficacy of a school-based, cognitive-behavioral intervention compared to an educational-supportive treatment for adolescents with social anxiety disorder.

Video: Social Anxiety Disorder

Friday, 15 June 2007 8:39 A GMT+01
Academic psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Reist, director of medical research for the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Healthcare System discusses Social Anxiety Disorder.

Abstract: A family study of co-morbidity between social phobia and GAD

Monday, 4 June 2007 9:46 A GMT+01
High rates of co-morbidity between Generalized Social Phobia (GSP) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have been documented. The reason for this is unclear. Family studies are one means of clarifying the nature of co-morbidity between two disorder

Social anxiety in teenagers raises substance-abuse risk

Sunday, 3 June 2007 9:15 A GMT+01
Social anxiety in youth, but not other anxiety or mood disorders, seems to set the stage for marijuana or alcohol dependence. So treating adolescents with social anxiety might reduce such dependence.

Try D-Cycloserine and Exposure Therapy for OCD: Experimental approach also achieves long-term results in treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder.

Monday, 21 May 2007 9:54 A GMT+01
The experimental concept of improving the treatment of anxiety disorders by combining exposure therapy with a medication got a boost from two pilot studies presented at the annual conference of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

Abstract: Recovery from social phobia in the community and its predictors

Wednesday, 28 March 2007 7:41 A GMT+01
The present longitudinal study aimed to determine rate of natural recovery from DSM-IV social phobia in the community and to examine predictors of recovery.

Is Social Phobia a disorder or not?

Thursday, 22 February 2007 6:59 A GMT+01
In college and law school, he often showed up for classes infrequently at the beginning of the semester because of first-day anxiety and stress, which took the form of fear. He knew that his fear was well out of proportion to the situation.

Corticotropin Releasing Factor drug goes to Phase II trial for Social Anxiety Disorder

Thursday, 21 December 2006 5:53 A GMT+01
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. has announced that GlaxoSmithKline has initiated a Phase II "proof of concept" clinical trials of Neurocrine's Corticotropin Releasing Factor R1 (CRF1) receptor antagonist compound for social anxiety disorder and IBS.

Compulsive hoarding found common in GAD and Social Phobia

Tuesday, 23 May 2006 6:16 A GMT+01
MIAMI - Compulsive hoarding is manifest in more than just a subset of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. A percentage of patients with general anxiety disorder and social phobia also reported hoarding symptoms in a study presented at the an

next »