Researchers found a way to watch anxiety unfold in the brain. Their study shows how the brain reacts when people face no-win choices.

Peer around a corner at a haunted house or watch a horror movie, and you'll know the moment. The one that makes you so scared ...

In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight response. George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut ...

If you've ever felt like anxiety is taking over your brain, you might have been on to something. Neuroscience now confirms that chronic anxiety doesn't just alter your mood—it reshapes the structure ...

As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, I have seen and studied how fear and anxiety work in our brain and body, and how they can prevent us from functioning well in our lives. One of my patients, a ...

When you're a teenager, it's easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of ...

Anxiety is a mental health condition millions of people around the world experience every day but not something that can necessarily be “seen”—until now. In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at ...

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 the ...

A new study shows that a personalized, precise form of brain stimulation, HD-tDCS, can rapidly ease depression symptoms – and even reduce anxiety – offering a promising drug-free alternative with only ...

Everyone knows someone — or maybe is that person — who shuts their eyes tight during the scary parts of a horror film and forces their friend to go first in the haunted house. Others avoid scary ...

I’ve written about anxiety for years. Its biology, its persistence, its cunning. But recently, during a spell of ...