The phrase "elevated anxiety" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or an animal who has an elevated level of anxiety or fear. For example, "The dog was exhibiting signs of elevated anxiety due to the loud noises outside."
These structural changes to the amygdala, PFC and hippocampus also induce elevated anxiety behaviour, which may then instigate even greater elevation of hypothalamic responses to stress.
There were elevated anxiety scores in 45% of patients.
The observed decrease in psychological functioning is most likely accounted for by elevated anxiety and depression levels.
Results: During the high-calorie condition, control subjects reported a significant desire to eat, whereas subjects with AN reported elevated anxiety and exhibited increases in heart rate.
The subsyndromal presentation of anxiety disorder not otherwise specified and of elevated anxiety symptoms were found in 27% and 40%, respectively, of patients with diabetes.
This limits interpretation of the common finding that people receiving risk information from screening programs show elevated anxiety (as assessed by questionnaire) in the short-term, which subsides over time.
Our study demonstrated that the blockade of CRF1 and CCK2 receptors attenuated the elevated anxiety-like behavior induced by immobilization stress, suggestive of the CRF and CCK systems contributing to the development of stress-related anxiety behavior.
The combined pretreatment of CR2945 (a CCK2 receptor antagonist) and antalarmin (a CRF1 receptor antagonist) fully blocked this elevated anxiety-like behavior, while the application of CR2945 or antalarmin alone showed only partial effects.
Interestingly, XY- mice also displayed elevated anxiety-like behaviors compared to XX animals [ 13].
Therefore, this eliminates the possibility that the elevated anxiety-like behaviour in the C2CR mice results from a hypersensitive HPA axis.
These data are not always consistent with results published by other groups, which, for example, found a correlation between initial elevated anxiety-like behaviour and enhanced stress-response [ 41, 63].
