A little-known brain region helps us decide when to panic and relax, reshaping our understanding of how fear works.

A study led by EPFL shows that Urolithin A, a natural compound, can abolish high anxiety in rats by repairing mitochondrial function in their brain cells, specifically in the nucleus accumbens. The ...

A study by the University of Portsmouth in England has mapped the biological journey of anxiety in the brain when people are ...

A clinical LSD formulation shows promise for severe anxiety. Trials reveal meaningful symptom relief and limited side effects. Generalized anxiety disorder affects about one in every twenty adults in ...

A new study has found that gaining weight as a result of poor diet is linked to impaired cognitive functioning and developing symptoms of anxiety, adding to the growing body of evidence that there's ...

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse. - Samuel Shem, MD, House of God What is "anxiety-dependent functioning"? For many years now, I've been thinking about the idea of ...

In the intricate chemical symphony of the brain, glutamate stands as the principal conductor. As the brain's most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter, glutamate facilitates our ability to learn, form ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of ...