From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: “Give sorrow words.” —Malcolm in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious? A new UCLA psychology study suggests…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Anxiety disorders affect approximately 40 million American adults each year, and although they are treatable, they often cause significant distress.The excessive fear and dread that accompanies anxiety disorders…
From the CORDIS press release via MedicalXpress: Fear conditioning using sound and taste aversion, as applied to mice, have revealed interesting information on the basis of memory allocation. European ‘Cellular mechanisms underlying formation of the…
From the Macquarie University press release via MedicalXpress: Australia’s leading support, treatment and research facility for anxiety and emotional disorders, the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University, is trialing a new treatment for childhood…
From the Emory University press release by Quinn Eastman: One of the brain’s jobs is to help us figure out what’s important enough to be remembered. Scientists at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University…
From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Duke University and the National Institutes of Health have found a way to calm the fears of anxious mice with a drug that alters their…
From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Humans’ fear level toward threats is associated with the typical size of our social circles, according to a report published Apr. 11 in the open…
From the Concordia University press release: Did I remember to lock the back door? Did I turn off the stove? Were the lights still on when I left the house this morning? Such minor doubts…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Have you watched the movie Friday the 13th? Scary, isn’t it? Well, perhaps not quite as scary as the infamous Rebecca Black song, “Friday” – but close…
From the Stanford University press release by Erin Digitale: Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown for the first time how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those…