Active clinical trials for "Anxiety Disorders"

This study is examining the impact of a therapy group for all anxiety disorders provided by the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences's Psychosocial Treatment Clinic on anxiety symptoms, impairment, and access to quality mental health care.

The current study will focus on two phases of anxiety process: Generating Anxiety (reported, direct and physiological) and Emotional Regulation Strategies (Reappraisal, Mindfulness, Expressive Suppression and Rumination). The claim is that better understanding of these phases in relation to CBT treatment will lead to better understanding of remission in anxiety and to better treatments in the future. Objectives: To understand the relations between the four strategies of emotional regulation to anxiety disorder hence to understand the relation between these strategies to treatment effectiveness of children with anxiety disorder. Methods: In phase one, clinically anxious adolescence before treatment (N=40) and healthy controls (N=40) will be compared. Anxious adolescence are expected to have significantly higher levels of physical arousal and will use spontaneously more expressive suppression and rumination and less reappraisal and mindfulness then the healthy controls. In phase two, clinically anxious adolescence (N=40) before and after 8-12 weeks of CBT treatment will be compared. More specifically remitted patients will be compared with partially remitted patients. Remitted patients are expected to show better improvement in the physical arousal, then partially remitted. More, Decrease in levels of anxiety will be mediated by the four emotional regulation strategies, and the efficiency of using the Reappraisal will be higher.

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders in the western world. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the psychological treatment that has the largest empirical support. However, the availability to CBT is very limited in Sweden due to lack of therapists with proper training. Therefore it is important to evaluate alternative forms of treatment that are more time efficient. One of these methods is Internet based self-help therapy, which has proven to be an effective treatment for social anxiety disorder. In this study, the investigators aim to conduct a follow-up assessment five years after completed Internet-based CBT. Participants received treatment within the context of a randomised controlled trial conducted in 2005. Thus, in the present study there will be no treatment interventions, only assessment.

Background: Researchers studying new treatments for major depressive disorder are looking at how medications to treat depression act on the brain chemical serotonin, which interacts with specific serotonin receptors on brain cells. New methods of studying serotonin receptors in the brain may help provide a better understanding of depression and treatment options. A new radioactive chemical called [11C]CUMI may be useful for studying serotonin receptors in the brain. By using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to see how [11C]CUMI bonds with serotonin receptors, researchers will investigate whether [11C]CUMI can be used to study depression and how antidepressant medications work. Objectives: - To determine the usefulness of [11C]CUMI as a method of studying serotonin receptors in the brain. Eligibility: - Healthy individuals between 18 and 65 who have no history of psychiatric illness. Design: This study requires 8 outpatient visits to the NIH clinic. Visit 1: Participants will have a full physical examination and medical history, as well as a psychiatric evaluation and questions about alcohol and drug use. Other tests will include blood and urine samples and an electrocardiogram (EKG). Testing will take approximately 3 hours. Visit 2: Participants will have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to evaluate brain function and activity. Visit 3: Participants will have a PET scan, in which a small amount of the radioactive chemical [11C]CUMI will be injected through an intravenous (IV) catheter, and will have another IV line put in place to draw regular blood samples during the scan. The scan will last approximately 4 hours. Visits 4-8: Participants will have regular blood tests after the scan between days 1-3 and at about weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4. The blood tests will check muscle, heart, and liver function.

The purpose of this study is to examine the short and long-term benefits of implementing early regional anesthesia techniques for pain control after a major traumatic injury to one or more extremities during combat in the Iraqi/Afghanistan war, including the effects on acute and chronic pain, quality of life, and mental health.

RATIONALE: Patients who undergo treatment for head and neck cancer may become anxious and avoid contact with other people. Learning how cancer treatment may cause anxiety in patients with head and neck cancer may help improve the quality of life in these patients. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying anxiety and avoidance of others in patients previously treated for head and neck cancer.

In this study we will assess as a primary objective the effect of venlafaxine retard treatment on primary care attended elderly patients with depressive syndrome. We will also study secondarily its effects on anxiety, somatic and painful symptoms of depression.

Can music listening decrease a patient's anxiety before surgery? The investigators hypothesize that music listening will decrease a patient's pre-operative anxiety significantly more than no music listening. The investigators aim to see if additional variables affect a patient's anxiety and response to music listening, such as demographic factors (age, race, prior surgical experience, type of surgery planned) and music background (experience playing a musical instrument, music listening habits). The investigators also aim to see if pre-operative music listening is associated with improved patient satisfaction.

Cancer is an extremely aggressive disease, anxiety and depression are consequences some patients may develop from diagnosis continuing during treatment. A measures control of the cancer is surgery for removal tumor. The surgical procedure is often a difficult experience for patients and their relatives, and patients in the preoperative period are often psychological symptoms of anxiety and depression. A previous study with the objective analyzing patient's emotional repercussion according the type of transport to the surgical center reached the following result: patients who go to the surgical center feel more relaxed in the preoperative period. The primary objective is to analyze emotional repercussion of patient diagnosed with cancer classified in Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0 and 1 according type transport to the surgical center.

Multicentres, observational study, prospective, to evaluate the effect of MAGZEN® in the treatment of recent anxiety reaction.