**RETRACTION NOTICE TO**: ANXIETY DISORDERS IN DEVELOPMENTAL AGE

AGATA MALTESE^1*, FRANCESCO CERRONI^2*, PALMIRA ROMANO², DANIELA RUSSO^2,3, MARGHERITA SALERNO⁴, BEATRICE GALLAI⁵, ROSA MAROTTA⁶, SERENA MARIANNA LAVANO⁶, FRANCESCO LAVANO⁶, GABRIELE TRIPI^7,8

¹Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy - ²Clinic of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Department of Mental Health, Physical and Preventive Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy - ³Centro di Riabilitazione La Filanda LARS; Sarno, Italy - ⁴Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁵Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - ⁶Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ⁷Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy - 8Childhood Psychiatric Service for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CH Chinon, France

Anxiety disorders represent the more common psychiatric disorder in developmental age and it is estimated that a third of ado- lescents satisfy the criteria for an anxiety disorder at the age of 18.

Many researches show that the disorders of anxiety in childhood are associated with anxiety disorders in adulthood, depressive disorders and use of psychoactive substances.

Suffering from anxiety disorders, such as specific phobia, agoraphobia, social anxiety or panic disorder, represents a strong predictor for the development of other psychiatric disorders

consequential. In the literature the debate on the weight of environmental factors and genetic factors in determining the development of anxiety disorders is ongoing.