anxiety disorder
cognitive disorder with an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations
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Summary
anxiety disorder is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,776 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: cognitive disorder[3], disease[4]
- Commons category: Anxiety disorders[5]
- Topic's main category: Category:Anxiety disorders[6]
- Possible treatment: psychotherapy[7]
- Described by source: The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[8]
- Has characteristic: anxiousness[9]
- ICD-9-CM: 300.09[10]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C2878[11]
- Different from: anxiety[12]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[13], clinical psychology[14]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: buspirone[15], prochlorperazine[16], amobarbital[17], bromodiphenhydramine[18], clorazepic acid[19], cidoxepin[20], meprobamate[21], levomepromazine[22], prazepam[23], venlafaxine[24], oxazepam[25], chlorpromazine[26], temazepam[27], propranolol[28]
- Studied by: psychiatry[29]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_2030[30], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:2030[31]
Why It Matters
anxiety disorder has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 96 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]