Promotion of good mental health, prevention, and early intervention before/at the onset of
mental disorders improve outcomes. However, the range and peak ages at onset for mental …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are highly comorbid,
and together they result in greater functional impairment and a poorer prognosis than either …

Especially individuals with mental disorders might experience an escalation of
psychopathological symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we investigated …

Background Strict confinement and social distancing measures have been imposed due to
the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries. The aim was to assess the temporal evolution of …

The microbiome-gut-brain axis plays a role in anxiety, the stress response and social
development, and is of growing interest in neuropsychiatric conditions. The gut microbiota …

Gender differences in social anxiety disorder (SAD) have not received much empirical
attention despite the large body of research on the disorder, and in contrast to significant …

Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is a condition characterized by debilitating fear and
avoidance of different social situations. We provide an overview of social anxiety and …

Not only do anxiety and depression diagnoses tend to co-occur, but their symptoms are
highly correlated. Although a plethora of research has examined longitudinal associations …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

The current paper presents an update to the model of social anxiety disorder (social phobia)
published by Rapee and Spence (2004). It evaluates the research over the intervening 11 …