Panel Discussion: Understanding Anxiety: Key Biology & Clinical Features, Sleep Cross-section & Comorbidities
- Exploring the core brain and stress response mechanisms that drive anxiety across different disorders
- Understanding how specific sleep problems: trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, early waking, or poor quality sleep can worsen anxiety and shape symptom patterns
- Recognizing how common comorbidities like depression, anhedonia and PTSD interact with anxiety and influence clinical presentation
- Identifying practical tools and measures clinicians and researchers can use to build a clearer picture of anxiety across diverse patient groups