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The case for eliminating excessive worry as a requirement for generalized anxie...
Ruscio, Ayelet Meron; Rassaby, Madeleine; Stein, Murray B.; Stein, Dan J.; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Al-Hamzawi, Ali; Alonso, Jordi; Atwoli, LukoyePublisher Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press.; Background Around the world, people living in objectively difficult circumstances who experience symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) do not qualify for a diagnosis because their worry is not 'excessive' relative to the context. We carried out the first large-scale, cross-national study to explore the impli...
Transdiagnostic development of internalizing psychopathology throughout the lif...
De Vries, Ymkje Anna; Al-Hamzawi, Ali; Alonso, Jordi; Andrade, Laura Helena; Benjet, Corina; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Bunting, Brendan; De Girolamo, GiovanniFunding: The Portuguese Mental Health Study was carried out by the Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, with collaboration of the Portuguese Catholic University, and was funded by Champalimaud Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation, Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and Ministry of Health; Background Depressive and anxiety disorders are highly comorbid, which...
The cross-national epidemiology of social anxiety disorder
Stein, Dan J.; Lim, Carmen C.W.; Roest, Annelieke M.; de Jonge, Peter; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Al-Hamzawi, Ali; Alonso, Jordi; Benjet, CorinaBackground: There is evidence that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling disorder. However, most of the available data on the epidemiology of this condition originate from high income countries in the West. The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative provides an opportunity to investigate the prevalence, course, impairment, socio-demographic correlates, comorbidity, and treatment of thi...