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PubMed1994

Evidence against a genetic relationship between Tourette's syndrome and anxiety, depression, panic and phobic disorders.

Analyses were undertaken to examine whether a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, affective, substance abuse and psychotic disorders, represent variant manifestations of Tourette's syndrome (TS). Previous studies have suggested that chronic tics (CT) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are variant expressions of TS since both CT and OCD are elevated among relatives of TS probands. In the current study, no other psychiatric disorder was significantly elevated among the relatives who did not have TS, CT or OCD when compared with a control sample. These findings are not consistent with the hypothesis that a wide range of psychiatric and behavioural disorders are variant expressions of TS.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

The role of perceived parental rearing practices in the aetiology of phobic disorders: a controlled study.

The perceived parental rearing practices and attitudes of social phobics, agoraphobics, height phobics and non-patient normal controls were investigated, employing the EMBU, an inventory for assessing memories of upbringing. Findings revealed that, as compared with the controls, social phobics and height phobics scored both parents not only as lacking in emotional warmth, but also as having been rejective and overprotective. Agoraphobics reported both parents as having lacked emotional warmth, but only their mothers as being rejecting. Interestingly, the perception of negative rearing practices of parents appeared to be stronger in height phobics than in either social phobics or agoraphobics.

Agoraphobia↗
PubMed1998

McLean Hospital depression research facility: early-onset phobic disorders and adult-onset major depression.

BACKGROUND: This study explores the temporal relationship between anxiety and major depressive disorders in a cohort of patients with current major depression. METHOD: Current prevalence and lifetime history of specific anxiety disorders were assessed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Diagnosis (SCID-P) in 85 patients with DSM-III-R major depression. Consensus DSM-III-R diagnoses were assigned by at least two psychiatrists or psychologists. RESULTS: Twenty-nine per cent met criteria for at least one current anxiety disorder and 34% had at least one anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. The mean (s.d.) age of onset of anxiety disorder in the depressed patients with comorbid social or simple phobia (15 (9) years) was significantly younger than was that of their major depression (25 (9) years). In contrast, the mean (s.d.) age of onset of anxiety in patients with comorbid panic or OCD (20 (8) years) was similar to that seen for their major depression (21 (9) years). In patients with major depression with comorbid anxiety disorders, both the social phobia (10 of 13) and simple phobia (4 of 4) were more commonly reported to start at least two years prior to their major depression in contrast to depressives with comorbid panic (3 of 10 subjects)-Fisher's exact test, P = 0.01. CONCLUSIONS: Early-onset social and simple phobias appear to be risk factors for later onset of major depression.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

Frequency of phobic disorder in a community sample of young adolescents.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency and phenomenology of clinical, subsyndromal, and subthreshold phobias in young adolescents. METHODS: A two-stage epidemiological study originally designed to investigate adolescent depression was conducted between 1986 and 1988 in the southeastern United States. In the first stage, a self-report depressive symptom questionnaire was administered to a community sample of 3,283 adolescents. In the diagnostic stage, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children and the Children's Global Assessment Scale were administered to 487 mother-child pairs. RESULTS: Prevalence rates of clinical, subsyndromal, and subthreshold phobia were 2.3%, 14.5%, and 22.2%, respectively. One-year incidence rates were 0.4%, 8.0%, and 16.9%, with 43.0% of phobic subjects categorized at the same or a more severe level after a year. Females, blacks, subjects not living with both biological parents, and older adolescents were more likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for clinical phobia. The majority (77%) of subjects with clinical phobia experienced multiple phobias. Subsyndromal (52%) and subthreshold (74%) phobics were more likely to experience simple phobias only. CONCLUSIONS: Phobic symptoms are relatively common at a moderate level and in the majority of adolescents are somewhat transitory in nature. Characteristic symptomatology and comorbidity may facilitate earlier identification of subjects at risk of persistent symptomatology and in need of treatment.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

The role of intravenous clomipramine in the treatment of obsessional and phobic disorders.

The results of intravenous clomipramine therapy in 118 patients suffering from obsessional syndromes and phobic anxiety states are reviewed. A remarkable consistency of improvement was observed especially in those patients suffering from obsessional symptoms. Better results were obtained in patients lacking hysterical personality traits. A brief reference is made to a pilot study involving the use of the 16PF personality test in assessing the effect of clomipramine.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

The management of phobic disorders in general practice.

Over two thousand patients have been treated with a flexible drug regime, having presented with a wide spectrum of disorders. Common aetiology was found in these patients and all could be said to be phobic, and as such many produced "side-effects" which could by predicted with accuracy--and overcome. A method is described for inducing increased patient compliance and decreased drop-out rate.

Clomipramine↗
PubMed1983

Phobic disorders.

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Anti-Anxiety Agents↗