Can anxiety damage the brain?

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 56-63

  Mah, Linda ^a,b   Szabuniewicz, Claudia ^b   Fiocco, Alexandra J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognition; Emotion regulation; Hippocampal neurogenesis; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DESIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; PRAZOSIN;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; AMYGDALA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EXERCISE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84952690808     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: 14736578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000223     Document Type: Review

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