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Anxiety

Anxiety is a future-oriented emotional and physiological state of apprehension, worry and heightened arousal in anticipation of perceived threat, adaptive in moderation but pathological when excessive, persistent and impairing. Clinically it underlies a family of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety, pan…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 43× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Anxiety is a future-oriented emotional and physiological state of apprehension, worry and heightened arousal in anticipation of perceived threat, adaptive in moderation but pathological when excessive, persistent and impairing. Clinically it underlies a family of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety, panic, social and specific phobias, and it frequently coexists with depression and stress-related conditions. Its mechanisms engage limbic and cortical circuitry and neurotransmitter and neuroendocrine systems, with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and cortisol response central to the stress reaction; cognitive and behavioural factors maintain and amplify symptoms. Assessment uses structured clinical evaluation and validated rating scales, and management spans psychotherapy, particularly cognitive-behavioural approaches, pharmacotherapy and complementary interventions. Work in this area covers the effectiveness of Reiki for anxiety, network-pharmacology and experimental study of an essential-oil combination in anxiety disorders, the influence of anxiety, depression and personality on psychological well-being and suicidal ideation in nursing students, photobiomodulation for depression, anxiety and cognition, the role of cholecystokinin in fear and anxiety, bilateral alternating somatosensory stimulation for stress-related cortisol and anxiety, perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, death anxiety, and cardiovascular associations of anxiety at menopause. The journal publishes peer-reviewed clinical and translational research on anxiety, its neurobiology, comorbidity and treatment.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

Photobiomodulation, Depression, Anxiety, and Cognition

Marks RayCorresponding author
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Exact topic Aging Research And Healthcare doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-3935

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 43 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Anxiety, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Schizophrenia Disorders And Therapy.

Journal editorial board
Olaoluwa Okusaga · United States Andrea de Bartolomeis · Italy Krzysztof Krysta · Poland

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