Table Of ContentDIFFERENT VIEWS OF
ANXIETY DISORDERS
Edited by Salih Selek
Different Views of Anxiety Disorders
Edited by Salih Selek
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Nosology and Defining Anxiety Disorders 1
Chapter 1 Anxiety and Its Nosographic and
Psychopathologic Place in German Psychiatry:
A Historical Perspective 3
Marc Géraud
Chapter 2 Social Anxiety Disorder 23
Nesrin Dilbaz, Aslı Enez and Serçin Yalçın Çavuş
Chapter 3 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders or Not:
Differential Diagnosis of Repetitive Behaviors
Among Individuals with Intellectual and
Developmental Disorders 37
Jarrett Barnhill
Chapter 4 Reasoning in Anxiety, OCD and Related
Disorders: Can Formal Reasoning Theories
Inform Us About Psychopathology? 69
Kieron P. O’Connor and Marie-Claude Pélissier
Part 2 Neuroscience 93
Chapter 5 Animal Models of Anxiety
Vulnerability - The Wistar Kyoto Rat 95
X. Jiao, K.D. Beck, K.C.H. Pang and R.J. Servatius
Chapter 6 Influence of Trait-Anxiety on Inhibition Function:
Evidence from ERP Studies 121
Yue-jia Luo, Ruolei Gu and Yu-xia Huang
Chapter 7 Zebrafish, a Potential Novel Research Tool for
the Analysis and Modeling of Anxiety 137
Robert Gerlai
VI Contents
Chapter 8 Acute Stress in Patients with Panic Disorder
Produces Effects on Salivary Amylase and Cortisol 159
Jotaro Akiyoshi,Yoshihiro Tanaka, Koichi Isogawa,
Yoshinobu Ishitobi, JusenTsuru, Tomoko Ando,
Aimi Kawano, Shizuko Okamoto, Masayuki Kanehisa,
Yoshihiro Maruyama, Haruka Higuma, Taiga Ninomiya,
Hiroaki Hanada and Kensuke Kodama
Part 3 Assessment 167
Chapter 9 Measuring States of Anxiety with
Clinician-Rated and Patient-Rated Scales 169
Per Bech
Chapter 10 Social Anxiety Disorder, Fear of Public Speaking,
and the use of Assessment Instruments 185
Flávia de Lima Osório, José Alexandre S Crippa,
Jaime Eduardo C. Hallak and Sonia R.Loureiro
Chapter 11 The Measurement of Health-Related Quality
of Life in a Population with Generalized Anxiety
Disorder – Findings from the QUEST Study 199
Neesha Harnam, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Dennis Revicki,
Julie C. Locklear and Jean Endicott
Part 4 Treatment: Dealing with Resistance 217
Chapter 12 Treatment Resistant
Generalized Anxiety Disorder 219
Nesrin Dilbaz, Serçin Yalcın Cavus and Aslı Enez Darcin
Chapter 13 The Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
and the Approaches to Treatment Resistance 233
Stefano Pallanti, Giacomo Grassi and Andrea Cantisani
Chapter 14 A Review of Interventions
for Treatment-Resistant Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 251
Cara Katz, Murray Stein, J. Don Richardson,
Soraya Seedat and Jitender Sareen
Part 5 Treatment: Alternative Approaches 271
Chapter 15 Herbal Remedies to Treat Anxiety Disorders 273
Bhagya Venkanna Rao, Bettadapura N. Srikumar and
Byrathnahalli S. Shankaranarayana Rao
Chapter 16 A Context-Aware System for Anxiety Disorders 293
Theodor Panagiotakopoulos, Maria-Anna Fengou,
Panagiotis Malliaris and Dimitrios Lymberopoulos
Contents VII
Part 6 Anxiety in Children 311
Chapter 17 Separation Anxiety in Children and Adolescents 313
Malgorzata Dabkowska, Aleksander Araszkiewicz,
Agnieszka Dabkowska and Monika Wilkosc
Chapter 18 Using Stories to Prevent Anxiety
Disorders in a School Context:
Dominique’s Handy Tricks Program 339
Jean Gervais, Stéphane Bouchard and Nadia Gagnier
Chapter 19 Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavioral
Interventions for Children with Anxiety Disorders:
A Group Counseling Curriculum 355
Jerry Wilde
Preface
Anxiety, whether an illness or emotion, is a term with historical roots even in the Bible,
but it was not popular until the modern age. If we speak of anxiety as an disorder,
advances in psychiatry in the last decades have revealed some biological as well as
psychosocial basis of the phenomenon. On the other hand, advances in neuroscience
have not yet found the “real cause” of anxiety. Today, we can group, diagnose and treat
several anxiety disorders to an extent, but the assessment of symptoms and severity,
dealing with resistant conditions, new treatment modalities and specific patient
population, such as children, are still the challenging aspects of anxiety disorders.
This book intends to present anxiety disorders from a different view and discusses
several issues. The first part begins with historical perspective of the nosology of
disorder in German lexicon and continues with new definitions or issues in anxiety
disorders. You can find the clues of “the invasion of the anxiety phenomenon” and
close relation of repetitive behaviors and anxiety in the chapters. Part two, reports
innovative animal and human studies of molecular and electrophysiological origin
that may stimulate further research in neuroscientific field. In the third part, the
authors focus on various assessment tools, which may provide useful information for
mental health professionals. The topic of the following two parts is treatment.
Treatment resistant conditions and new treatment approaches are mentioned in the
chapters. The readers may be particularly interested in herbal remedies. The final part
focuses on a specific population- children.
Finally, this book is neither a classically designed textbook nor a collection of reviews.
It is a mixture of traditional and novel knowledge discussing a wide variety of anxiety
topics from a multidimensional approach. The book addresses not only psychiatrists
but also a broad range of specialists, including psychologists, neuroscientists and other
mental health professionals with open access choice.
Salih Selek, M.D.
Psychiatry Department, Harran University Medical School, Sanliurfa,
Turkey
This book is for information only and should not be used for diagnosis and treatment.
Consult a doctor or other health care professional for the diagnosis and treatment of
medical conditions.
