Background. This paper summarizes work with the Interview for Recent Life Events (IRLE),
an instrument that has been used extensively but not previously reported in detail. Methods …

Expectancy theory posits that anxiety sensitivity may serve as a premorbid risk factor for the
development of anxiety pathology (S. Reiss, 1991). The principal aim of the present study …

Proposed in this paper is an expansion of the concept of fear of fear to include fear of other
emotions (anger, depression, and positive emotions). In Study 1, initial evidence of the …

Objective: To evaluate the role of emotionally stressful or phobogenic events and phobic
personality traits in transient global amnesia (TGA). Design: Case-control study. Setting …

Objective: The authors investigated the relationship of cognitive and coping characteristics
to stressful life events at the time of relapse in patients with recent-onset paranoid …

The aim of this study was to explore the association between stressful life events (SLE) and
the development of panic disorder (PD) in an Israeli sample. A total of 44 PD patients and a …

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) suffered from a chronic illness that, throughout much of his
adult life, impaired his functioning and severely limited his activities. The writings of this …

Abstract The Diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been exclusively
connected to the experience of high magnitude stressors. This focus on the stressor as the …

Panic attacks can be disabling with patients experiencing episodes of intense fear coupled
with physical and psychological symptoms. When reviewing treatment in 1993, we …