When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the underlying mechanisms …

In spite of promising preclinical results there is a decreasing number of new registered
medications in major depression. The main reason behind this fact is the lack of confirmation …

Objective: Anxiety disorders are common and often disabling. The goal of this study was to
examine the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms, which are also …

Background Mood disorders (including major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder)
affect 10% to 20% of the population. They range from brief, mild episodes to severe …

Background Mental health problems are common among clinicians working in public
hospitals even in the late stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Network analysis is a novel …

Anorexia nervosa (AN) occurs nine times more often in females than in males. Although
environmental factors likely play a role, the reasons for this imbalanced sex ratio remain …

Body composition is often altered in psychiatric disorders. Using genome-wide common
genetic variation data, we calculate sex-specific genetic correlations amongst body fat%, fat …

Background Anxiety and depression are common, debilitating and costly. These disorders
are influenced by multiple risk factors, from genes to psychological vulnerabilities and …

Twin studies have shown that emotional problems (anxiety and depression) in childhood
and adolescence are moderately heritable (~ 20–50%). In contrast, DNA-based 'SNP …

Background Anxiety and depressive disorders can be classified under a bidimensional
model, where depression and generalized anxiety disorder are represented by distress and …