Introduction: current studies on anxiety from the perspective of research conducted during the last three decades. Part 1 Congnitive developments: confidence, doubt and coping with anxiety; self-organization and disorganization and anxiety; anxiety and effort; stress, comfort and self- appraisal - a panoramic investigation of the dynamics of cognitive processes. Part 2 Psychophysiological development: the eyeblink - affects and cognitive influences; skin conductance, heart rate and active-passive coping; anxiety and inhibition - a psychophysiological approach; detector Mechanisms Of Perceptions And Emotions. Part 3 Health Developments: emotional responses to illness involving high or low risk of life in type A patients; test anxiety can harm your health; the perceived costs and benefits of cigarette smoking among adolescents - need instrumentality, self-anger, and anxiety factors; anxiety research - present and future. The concept of anxiety: background and current issues, P.McReynolds; physiology of the autonomic nervous system as related to cardiovascular function: implications for stress research, P.Hjemdal; silent myocardial ischemis in patients with angina pectoris: the effects of mental stress and the role of psychological factors, M.J.Shea, J.E.Deanfield, C.M.DeLandsheere, R.A.Wilson, M.Kensett, P.Horlock, A.P.Selwyn; pathogenesis and the relationship between anxiety and mitral valve prolapse, R.H.Rosenman; psychological and pharmacologic treatment of anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, social phobia and panic disorder, J.W.Jefferson, J.H.Greist; anxiety and the heart: a psychological perspective, D.G.rne.
