Periods of prolonged social isolation have long been associated with difficult emotions and, in some cases, with the ...

Quick-acting targeted therapies with minimal side effects are an urgent need for the treatment of anxiety-related disorders. While delta opioid receptor (DOP) agonists have shown 'anxiolytic' or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An intervention for modifying safety behaviors improved social anxiety in people with trauma. Future research ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers investigated whether the gut microbiota plays a causal role in modulating behaviors relevant to social anxiety disorder (SAD). SAD, a ...

Anxiety is considered a natural response to stress. However, a state of heightened anxiety, called anxiety disorder, prevents thousands of people from living their best lives. While several underlying ...

Key Points: Driven by worries around COVID-19, many people have been experiencing health anxiety, fixating on the question of whether they may be ill in ways that disrupt their daily lives, including ...

Everyone responds differently to their feelings, and anxiety can look different in everyone. Some people may appear fearful, shaky, or panicky. Some may respond with anger when they are forced to face ...

Standing on the edge, getting lost in a dark jungle, or dashing into a crush will cause your heart rate to increase as a physical reaction to your anxiousness Stanford Medicine researchers discovered ...