Anxiety

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. In general, it helps one cope, but when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it has become a disabling disorder. Five major types of anxiety disorders are: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),and Social Phobia (or Social Anxiety Disorder). Effective treatments for anxiety disorders are available, and research is yielding new, improved therapies that can help most people with anxiety disorders lead productive, fulfilling lives.

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Video, Podcast and Images

Health Disparities and the Stress Hypothesis
January 9, 2013
Developmental Disabilities Grand Rounds
R. Jay Turner, Ph.D., Harvie Branscomb Chair and Professor of Sociology, Professor of Psychiatry
Developmental Disabilities Grand Rounds: Neural Substrates of Risk for Anxiety
"Neural Substrates of Risk for Anxiety" Jennifer Blackford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Member
Developmental Factors Underlying the Risk to Develop Anxiety and Depression
Lecture on development and developmental disabilities for researchers, clinicians, and trainees.
Psychosocial and Biological Markers of Stress in the Lives of Mothers of Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Ph.D., presented at the October, 2009 Lecture on Developmental Disabilities at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.
Pediatric Anxiety - Current and Future Approaches to Therapeutics
Lecture by Daniel Pine, M.D., at the Special Lecture on Development and Developmental Disabilities held on March 26, 2009.