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Anxiety is found as a significant factor in most mental health diagnoses. All humans experience a uniform set of physiological responses in reaction to perceived stressors. These responses are triggered by stress -related hormones including cortisol. The possibility that stress (and associated anxiety ) is the main latent class variable in a variety of disorders of mental health is increasingly likely.
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Wasserman, T., Wasserman, L.D. (2019). Latent Variables in the Diagnosis of Anxiety. In: Therapy and the Neural Network Model. Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26921-0_11
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