Anxiety research has exploded over the past few
decades, yielding a wealth of new information in
multiple domains. These domains include underlying neurobiology, risk and protective factors,
patterns of expression of normal and pathological
anxiety, cultural determinants of this expression,
and the delineation of specific anxiety disorders
and their evidence-based treatments. As areas of
research become increasingly specialized, the need
to integrate our understanding across these different domains has become increasingly more important, calling for an interdisciplinary approach. This
book brings together research relevant to anxiety
disorders from a variety of disciplines into one volume, with the hope that it will encourage readers
to bridge these disciplines to further advance our
understanding of anxiety and the treatment of anxiety disorders.
