Anxiety Disorders

1:Normal and pathological anxiety.- 1 What is anxiety?.- 2 Relevance of laboratory research on anxiety disorders.- 3 Genetic factors and brain imaging.- 4 Management.- 5 Discussion.- 2:Biological basis of anxiety and strategies for pharmacological innovation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Neurobiology of anxiety disorders.- 3 Recent development and future anxiolytics.- 4 Discussion.- 3:Generalised anxiety disorder.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Diagnostic.- 3 The phenomenon of worry.- 4 Neurobiology.- 5 Physiopathology.- 6 Epidemiology and natural course.- 7 Treatment.- 8 Methodology for clinical investigation.- 9 Discussion.- 4:Social phobia.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Diagnosis and comorbidity.- 3 Pathophysiology.- 4 Treatments.- 5 Methodology of clinical investigations.- 6 Discussion.- 5:Panic disorder.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Diagnosis and aetiology.- 3 Pathophysiology.- 4 Treatments.- 5 Methodology for clinical investigation.- 6 Discussion.- 6:Obsessive-compulsive disorder.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Diagnostic.- 3 Physiopathology.- 4 Treatment.- 5 Methodology for clinical investigation.- 6 Discussion.- 7:Posttraumatic stress disorder.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Epidemiology.- 3 Comorbidity.- 4 Physiological and neurological abnormalities associated with PTSD.- 5 Cognitive dysfunction associated with PTSD.- 6 Treatment of PTSD.- 7 Discussion.- 8:Phobic disorders.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Epidemiology.- 3 Genetics.- 4 Treatment.- 5 Discussion.- 9:Laboratory models of anxiety.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Biological animal models.- 3 Behavioural animal models.- 4 Human models.- 5 Issues relevant to some non-benzodiazepine anxiolytics.- 6 Discussion.- 10:Discussion and perspectives.- Future perspectives.