Contributing Factors to Anxiety Disorders: A Neural-Biological Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v13i4.8030Keywords:
Anixety, Anxiety Disorders, Influences, Mental Health, Mental Disorder, Neurology, Emotion, BrainAbstract
Anxiety is a prominent and changing mental disorder existing in past, present, and future-day society. It includes constant, sudden, and lasting fear which fills the body and becomes a significant problem for many individuals. Ranging from young to old, poor to rich; anxiety is present in any individual who finds substantial fear within a certain topic or issue. Various contributing factors such as genetic, environmental, and lifestyle influences shape the way a person experiences and copes with anxiety. This mental disorder can be devastating for many due to the direct correlation between life experience and the internal system that controls emotion and mood. A neural-biological perspective to anxiety highlights exactly how the journey of anxiety travels through the brain and links mental health to physical behavior. This determines how intensely a certain individual may experience anxiety, as well as what specific types can prompt a sense of survival mode through the brain. Various treatment methods for anxiety include lessening or complete mitigation of anxiety. Efficiently, anxiety problems can be resolved if an individual understands the link between influences of anxiety to human behavior. These specific links within anxiety prove to aid quality of mental health, physical wellbeing, neural processes, and overall lifestyle.
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