Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied the relationship between numerical information in our vision, and ...

Anxiety disorders are complex mental health conditions characterised by an enduring sensitivity to threat and a propensity to process negative information in an exaggerated manner. A central feature ...

Bisection tasks reveal biases due to spatial-numerical association. The presence of numbers in the object acts to affect subtly participants’ perception of where the center is. Tokyo, Japan – ...

New research suggests that a specific type of brain training could help socially anxious individuals break the habit of instantly focusing on threatening social cues. A study published in the Journal ...

Altering attention diminishes worry more powerfully than trying to directly conquer emotional aspects of anxiety. Anxiety can feel tremendously uncomfortable, unsettling, and discombobulating. Whether ...

As your thoughts run uncontrollably, your heartbeat starts to race and your breathing becomes heavy. Uneasiness is followed by fear, and then without warning, panic begins to set in. Suddenly you feel ...