Social anxiety disorder is a common and debilitating disorder, often leading to complications such as depression, substance abuse and increased suicide risk. During the past two decades, research on the cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal and physiologi
Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is maintained by biased information-processing vis-à-vis threat of social exclusion. However, uncertainty still abounds regarding the very nature of this sensitivity to social exclusion in SAD. Especially, brain alterations related to social ex...
M. (2016). The aetiology and maintenance of social anxiety disorder: a synthesis of complimentary theoretical models and formulation of a new integrated model. Journal of Affective Disorders, 203, 84-100.Wong QJJ, Rapee RM. The aetiology and maintenance of social anxiety disorder: A synthesis ...
Fluvoxamine-controlled release formulation for the treatment of generalized social anxiety disorder. Generalized social anxiety disorder is a highly prevalent anxiety disorder with deleterious effects on social and family relationships, as well as work per... J Davidson,J Yaryura-Tobias,R Dupont,... ...
Anxiety disorders are high prevalence, prepubertal onset conditions that can become persistently impairing without adequate treatment. They are among the most common disorders in children, commonly co-occur with other anxiety disorders, and increase the
This was a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled multicenter study to assess the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of fluvoxamine in a controlled release (CR) formulation for treatment of generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD). A total of 300 subjects with GSAD were randomly assigned to re...
The relation between anxiety and skill in performance-based anxiety disorders: A behavioral formulation of social phobia Anxiety-related responding and skill deficits have historically been associated with performance-based anxiety disorders such as social phobia. Prominent c... DR Hopko,DW Mcneil,MJ ...
to reduce the impact of early social trauma experiences. Video feedback is a key component of the treatment and is used throughout therapy. This present-focused technique aims to counteract the distorted negative self-images that characterize social anxiety disorder (Hackmann, Surawy, & Clark, 19...
Studies regarding cognitive biases in social anxiety var- ied on whether the sample was unselected (i.e. a community sample), highly trait anxious, or clinically diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. Different meta-analyses on attention bias and interpretation bias in adults, children, and ado...
The DASS-21 scales are not designed for psychiatric diagnosis, but they are found to correlate with the DSM-5 mood disorder and anxiety disorder symptoms over the past week. The DASS-21 depression scale has shown a high correlation (r = 0.79) [29] with the Beck Depression Inventory (...