Anxiety.

Presented by Smith Kline and French Laboratories, this film presents very clearly, with excellent medical representatives, the research and ideas of its time about what causes and can treat anxiety. Desmond Kelly, St. Georges Hospital Medical School and Malcolm H. Lader, Maudsley Hospital discuss their research to find the core of clinical anxiety. A young woman describes her anxiety symptoms to Desmond Kelly and they test her levels of stress by encephalogram and heart monitor. They conclude that anxious people are unable to filter out sensory input and rapidly become overloaded by stressful situations. Hans Selye, University of Montreal, talks about 'stress physiology' and describes stress as 'the non-specific reaction of the body to any demand made upon it.' Lennart Levi, Lab for Clinical Stress Research, Stockholm, is researching the effects on the body of severe, prolonged stress by studying people kept awake for three days in a shooting gallery. In the US a middle-aged man describes the headaches he gets because of stress and anxiety. He talks to Leo E. Hollister, Medical Investigator at V.A. Hospital, Palo Alto, who is also shown describing the drug treatments available to a group of young medical students who are invited to question him. Nathan S. Kline from Rockland State Hospital also discusses drugs to help with anxiety to a small group of young women who appear to work in mental health.