An update on the conceptual and classification issues of anxiety, its neuroanatomy and problems of anxiolytic drug discovery
Faludi, Gábor.; Gonda, Xénia.; Döme, Péter.
Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica a Magyar Pszichofarmakologiai Egyesulet Lapja 17(2): 69-80
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1419-8711 PMID: 26192900 Document Number: 684209
Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent psychiatric diseases. In this short review we provide an overview of concepts of fear, anxiety and anxiety disorders. In addition, based on the recent literature, neuroanatomical structures involved in anxiety and functional/structural changes of these structures in anxiety disorders are also discussed. Furthemore, the pitfalls of anxiolytic drug discovery is also concerned in the paper.