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Brain Scan May Guide Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Brain scans may predict which type of therapy will be most effective for obsessive-compulsive disorder in teens and adults.

Yoga Helps Generalized Anxiety Disorder but Not as Much as CBT

A new randomized controlled clinical trial evaluated whether yoga and cognitive behavioral therapy are each more effective than stress education to treat generalized anxiety disorder.

Simple Coping Behaviors Linked to Reduced Anxiety, Depression During COVID-19

Simple coping behaviors may protect against anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.

Anxiety Screening in Women: Recommendation from the Women’s Preventive Service Initiative

Study finds screening methods for teenage girls and adult women are generally accurate for the diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder.

Cyberchondria May Be Improved With Online CBT

Online searches can reinforce patients’ assumptions about their health status, as well as cause debilitating anxieties.

Attachment Anxiety, Therapeutic Alliance Predict Treatment Response in Social Anxiety Disorder

The researchers identified greater baseline attachment anxiety and poorer therapeutic alliance as predictors of low treatment response in patients with social anxiety disorder.

Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, Social Phobia More Often Experience Embarrassing Social Interactions

Depersonalization can be described as feeling disconnected from one’s body, whereas derealization is characterized by feeling disconnected from the world, with environments, objects, and people seeming unreal or unfamiliar.

General Dysfunctional Thinking Worsens Anxiety, Depression in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The study examined the importance of confronting general dysfunctional beliefs, particularly notions of low self-efficacy and failure, in short-term therapy for patients with IBD.

Troriluzole No Better Than Placebo in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Study

Results showed a mean change from baseline of -9.28 points (95% CI, -10.23 to -8.32) on the HAM-A total score in patients treated with troriluzole compared with -9.35 points (95% CI, -10.34 to -8.36) with placebo (P =.917).

Anxiety, Depression Higher in Patients With Atopic Eczema Compared With Other Chronic Diseases

Depression, anxiety, and reduced quality of life are seen more frequently in patients with atopic eczema—and these associations imply that it may be more than just a skin disease.