What many people call anxiety may actually be fear. Understanding how the brain’s alarm system works can completely change how we approach anxiety.

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Most of us deal with anxiety at some point, but certain everyday habits can quietly make it much worse. Psychologists have ...

In a world of constant stimulation and rising stress, the ability to remain calm may be one of the most powerful psychological skills we can develop.

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion regulation, plays a key role in the emergence of conditions such as anxiety, ...

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Researchers have found that lifelong physical activity may moderate the structural brain changes linked to adverse childhood ...

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High-functioning anxiety can make successful people appear calm while struggling internally and more often seen in women here ...

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...