Stressors have a major influence upon mood, our sense of well-being, behavior, and health.
Acute stress responses in young, healthy individuals may be adaptive and typically do not …

The pathogenesis of anxiety disorders is multifactorial, involving complex interactions
between biological factors, environmental influences and psychological mechanisms …

Recent theories of stress reactivity posit that, when stressed, individuals tend to seek out
opportunities to affiliate with and nurture others to prevent or mitigate the negative effects of …

Background Although substantial evidence suggests that stressful life events predispose to
the onset of episodes of depression and anxiety, the essential features of these events that …

In this article the authors address how pathological anxiety may develop from adaptive fear
states. Fear responses (eg, freezing, startle, heart rate and blood pressure changes, and …

OBJECTIVE: In a 1989 article, the authors provided a hypothesis for the neuroanatomical
basis of panic disorder that attempted to explain why both medication and cognitive …

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety sensations which arises from beliefs that these
sensations have harmful somatic, social, or psychological consequences. Over the past …

Expectancy theory posits that anxiety sensitivity may serve as a premorbid risk factor for the
development of anxiety pathology (S. Reiss, 1991). The principal aim of the present study …

I had two main goals when writing this book. The first was to provide a comprehensive
review of the factors that contribute to excessive fear and anxiety disorders. This …

Although stressful life events (SLEs) play a major role in many etiologic theories of major
depression (MD), important questions remain about the nature of their association with the …