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Article: Environmental factors key in anxiety disorders.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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ST. LOUIS -- Anxiety disorders may be transmitted from one generation to the next by specific family environmental factors such as parental modeling, overcontrolling parental behavior, and family conflict, according to a study presented at the annual conference of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
The role of genetics in anxiety is not clear, though it's thought that heredity is a minor player, said Kelly L. Drake, Ph.D., who is among several investigators trying to find answers to this complicated disorder.
A key factor in this parent-to-child psychopathology is anxiety sensitivity (AS), which is based on the belief that internal symptoms of ...