Research is helping us better understand anxiety-driven brain changes and how our fears rewire our brains.

Worldwide, only about 28% of people with anxiety receive treatment. The figure is similar for the UK, and in the US about 37% receive a treatment. This is due to a number of factors such as lack of ...

Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in ...

On Your Mind Fear and anxiety can help. Here’s how to use them to your advantage. In the field of mental health, fear and anxiety are usually seen as pathologies. But there is necessary and ...

UK researchers have, for the first time, identified a genetic pathway in the brain that plays a key role in controlling anxiety, opening the door to the development of more effective treatments in ...

A study of 20,000 anxiety disorder patients shows how negativity bias affects brain structure, cognitive function and mental health, supporting the view that mental illness is brain illness.

Anxiety can feel awful. But it can also be a helpful warning signal, telling us when we're in danger or out of alignment with our true feelings.

Although emotions like fear and anxiety originate in your brain, they ultimately travel through your body and make your heart race and your stomach twist.

Calling all textbook overthinkers! If your brain is like a web browser with 37 tabs open at all times, these funny anxiety memes are here to give you a much-needed laugh (and maybe distract you from ...

Although emotions like fear and anxiety originate in your brain, they ultimately travel through your body and make your heart race and your stomach twist, writes Arash Javanbakht.

If Anxiety Is In My Brain, Why Is My Heart Pounding? A Psychiatrist Explains The Neuroscience And Physiology Of Fear In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight ...