Resilience refers to the ability to successfully adapt to stressors, maintaining psychological
well-being in the face of adversity. Recent years have seen a great deal of research into the …

Anxiety and depression share a long, close history in psychiatric nosology and treatment.
The anxiety disorders, individually and as a group, exhibit remarkably high rates of …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is increasingly recognized as both a disorder of
enormous mental health and societal burden, but also as an anxiety disorder that may be …

Resiliency to the adverse effects of extraordinary emotional trauma on the brain varies within
the human population. Accordingly, some people cope better than others with traumatic …

Biological psychiatry has dominated psychiatric thinking for the past 40 years, but the
knowledge base of the discipline has increased substantially more recently, particularly with …

Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders worldwide. They often
onset early in life, with symptoms and consequences that can persist for decades. This …

There is strong evidence for a genetic contribution to the pathogenesis of panic disorder,
with the functional catechol‐O‐methyltransferase (COMT) val158met polymorphism having …

Anxiety disorders are frequent and burdensome psychiatric diseases. Despite their
moderate to strong heritabilities, the search for candidate genes has been limited by …

Complex neurodevelopmental disorders, such as schizophrenia, autism, attention deficit
(hyperactivity) disorder,(manic) depressive illness and addiction, are thought to result from …

Extensive preclinical studies suggest neuropeptide Y (NPY) to be involved in stress
regulation and coping. NPY counteracts the behavioral consequences of stress and anxiety …