Anxiety Sensitivity

Stewart, S. and Pihl, R., Effects of alcohol administration on psychophysiological and subjective-emotional responses to aversive stimulation in anxiety sensitive women. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 8(1), 29-42, 1994. 

Peterson, R. A., Reiss, S. (1987). Anxiety sensitivity manual. Worthington, OH International Diagnostic Systems. 

Stewart SH, Karp J, Pihi RO, Peterson RA. (1997). Anxiety sensitivity and self-reported reasons for drug use. 3 Subst Abuse. 9 223-40. 

Schmidt N, Lerew D, Jackson R (1997) The role of anxiety sensitivity in the pathogenesis of panic prospective evaluation of spontaneous panic attacks during acute stress. J Abnorm Psychol 106 355-364... 

Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) Private, via author W.K. Silverman, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, EL also in Werry, J.S. and Aman, M.G. eds.. Practitioner s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs for Children and Adolescents. New York Plenum. 

Anxiety sensitivity is a prominent characteristic of patients with panic disorder. It is defined as a stable dimension of personality that consists of fears of physical sensations based on the belief that these symptoms have harmful consequences (Reiss et al. 1986). Anxiety sensitivity is not dependent on a history of panic attacks, but rather, it is hypothesized to be an important cognitive risk factor in the development of panic attacks and panic disorder. This hypothesis is supported by some (Donnell and McNally 1990 Mailer and Reiss 1992) but not all (S. H. Stewart et al. 1992) studies with nonclinical subjects. 

We have also examined the extent to which anxiety sensitivity influences the magnitude of response to CCK-4 in patients with panic disorder (Koszycki et al. 1996b). In this study, anxiety sensitivity did not correlate with the intensity of affective response to CCK-4, although it did correlate with the number and severity of cognitive symptoms at a modest level. No association was found between anxiety sensitivity and the number of somatic symptoms endorsed or the sum intensity of somatic symptoms. 

Donnell CD, McNally RJ Anxiety sensitivity and panic attacks in a nonchnical population. Behav Res Ther 28 83-85, 1990... 

Holloway W, McNally RJ Effects of anxiety sensitivity on the response to hyperventilation. J Abnorm Psychol 96 330-334, 1987 Hohnberg G Effect on electrically induced convulsions of the number of previous treatments in a series. Arch Neurol Psychiatry 71 619-623, 1954 Holsboer E Neuroendociinology of affective disorder, in Psychopharmacology The fourth Generation of Progress. Edited by Bloom EE, Kupfer DJ. New York, Raven, 1995, pp 263-291... 

Mailer RA, Reiss S Anxiety sensitivity in 1984 and panic attacks in 1987. J Anxiety Disord 6 241-247, 1992... 

Reiss S, Peterson R, Gorsky D, et al Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness. Behav Res Ther 24 1-8, 1986 Reiter RJ The neurohormone melatonin neuropharmacological actions and implications, in Endocrine Psychopharmacology. Edited by Halbreich U. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press [in press a)... 

Stewart SH, Knize K, Pihl RO Anxiety sensitivity and dependency in chnical and non-clinical panickers and controls. J Anxiety Disord 6 119-131, 1992... 

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