“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who conducted the research while working in human genetics at the University of ...

Anxiety is a feeling where an individual believes their brains are betraying them. Now researchers are asking whether part of ...

A new UC Davis study finds that people with anxiety disorders have 8% less choline in key brain regions, a nutrient found in ...

Anxiety isn't only mental; your body shows real signs too. From palpitations and breathlessness to muscle ache and brain fog, ...

The findings, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, come from an analysis of 25 studies. The team compared neurometabolite levels, which are chemicals created during brain metabolism, ...

Anxiety can feel tremendously uncomfortable, unsettling, and discombobulating. Whether one experiences an isolated case of situationally driven anxiety, or whether one’s anxiety is so severe or ...

Stress definitely leads to anxiety just like isolation makes way for depression.Psychological and social experiences shape ...

As long as I believed the bear of anxiety was chasing me, my body believed I was under threat and responded accordingly.

While anxiety helps us spot danger and avoid it, too much anxiety and experiencing anxiety when something is not dangerous can be very upsetting for children. It can also keep children from engaging ...

An influential health task force has just issued new recommendations about screening for anxiety problems. The panel of clinicians now says that all adults without anxiety symptoms should be screened ...

The chances are fairly high that either you or a loved one has had a history of anxiety. In any given year about 17% of us will have an anxiety disorder—and over our lives, about 28% of us will have ...

For the first time, an influential task force now recommends all people under age 65 be screened for anxiety problems at regular checkups. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, the goal is to help ...