Journal of Depression and Anxiety Disorders

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Research Article Pages 31-40

The Effect of Expressive Disclosure Writing on Self-Stigma, Depression, and Anxiety among Drug Users in a Governmental Hospital in Egypt: A Non-Randomized Controlled Trial

Authors: Amira Mohammed Ali, AmiraSharaf, SamiaAbdeldayem and Norito Kawakami

Abstract: Worldwide, illicit drugs strike more than 5% of the 15-64 years old population. Egypt reports greater than the double of that rate, 12.6%. The spread of illicit drugs among youths greatly threatens the country's public health and social security. Grimly, drug victims endorse stress out of the physiological effect of drugs, as well as the rapid progression, chronicity, and high relapse of the disorder.

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Research Article Pages 27-30

Somatoform and Affective Disorders in Chronic Pain: Temporary Sequence and Associated Factors

Authors: Teresa Lopez-Arteaga

Abstract: Pain is a multidimensional experience encompassing both sensory and emotional elements. There are many factors involved in the etiopathogenesis, evolution and maintenance of chronic pain, with psychopathological factors being important.

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Original Research Pages 17-26

Emotion Regulation in High and Low Socially Anxious Individuals: An Experimental Study Investigating Emotional Mimicry, Emotion Recognition, and Self-Reported Emotion Regulation

Authors: Claudia Peter-Ruf, Ursula Kirmse, Simone Pfeiffer, Marc Schmid, Frank H Wilhelm and Tina In-Albon

Abstract: Emotion recognition and emotional mimicry are both highly important for social interactions. The authors investigated in a subclinical sample if High Socially Anxious (HSA) individuals show an altered pattern of emotional mimicry, and exhibit difficulties in emotion recognition compared to Low Socially Anxious (LSA) individuals.

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Research Article Pages 12-16

Frontal EEG Asymmetry Differs between High and Low Trait Anxious Individuals as a Function of Lateralized Vibrotactile Stress

Authors: Kyle Woisard, Benjamin B DeVore, MA Ransom W Campbell, MA Patti Kelly Harrison and David W Harrison

Abstract: Anxiety is an aversive emotional state marked by hyperarousal and cognitive impairments. Studies using Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) have shown asymmetric right frontal and parietotemporal activity at resting baseline in trait anxious subjects.

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Research Article Pages 1-11

Examining the Processes of Change Associated With Mindfulness-Based Meditation and Reductions in Trait Anxiety

Authors: Dessa Bergen-Cico and Ambika Krishna kumar

Abstract: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs have demonstrated efficacy in reducing trait anxiety; however, there is limited understanding of the process and mechanisms of change through which MBSR programs reduce anxiety.

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