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The genetics of anxiety disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

B.J.M. van de Wetering ,
O.A. van den Heuvel  and
D.L. Pauls
B.J.M. van de Wetering*
Affiliation:
Erasmus Medisch Centrum Rotterdam, afd. Psychiatrie
O.A. van den Heuvel
Affiliation:
Academisch Medisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, div. Psychiatrie
D.L. Pauls
Affiliation:
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
*
dr B.J.M. van de Wetering, Afd. Psychiatrie Erasmus Medisch Centrum Rotterdam, Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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The common denominator of anxiety disorders is that they share inappropriate levels of emotions and cognitions that affect rather than enable adaptive behaviours. The variety of symptoms include ‘spontaneous’ panic attacks with mental and physical symptoms, stimulus bound anxiety associated with avoidance behaviour, and almost constant ‘generalized’ anxious feelings. According to the DSM-IV criteria the anxiety disorders are classified as shown in Table I.

Keywords

Anxiety disordersgeneticsobsessive compulsive disorderpanic disorder
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 63 - 66
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Copyright © Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 1999

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