Stefano Pini, Marianna Abelli, Barbara Costa, Miriam A Schiele, Katharina Domschke, David S Baldwin, Gabriele Massimetti, Barbara Milrod
BACKGROUND: Behavioral Inhibition (BI) is an early temperamental trait characterized by shyness, withdrawal, avoidance, uneasiness, and fear of unfamiliar situations, people, objects, and events. The DSM-5 refers to behavioral inhibition as a temperamental factor related to neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, selective mutism, and specific phobias; and to its influence on adult anxiety disorders including social anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder, but, interestingly, not separation anxiety disorder (SAD)...
July 2022: Comprehensive Psychiatry