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 ...

Why Some People Are Born to Be Afraid Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be ...

A large twin study suggests that while generalized anxiety symptoms often fluctuate from year to year during early adulthood, there is a stable core to these symptoms that is strongly shaped by ...

Many Americans are experiencing anxiety symptoms due to the ongoing pandemic. Nearly half (46%) of all respondents to the nationwide GeneSight Mental Health Monitor survey rated their anxiety symptoms ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an international team of researchers conducted a large-scale genome-wide association study across five ancestral groups to understand the ...

Gene editing may be a potential treatment for anxiety and alcohol use disorder in adults who were exposed to binge drinking in their adolescence, according to the results of an animal study. The ...

Are you a worrier? If you're prone to worrying, some of your relatives were probably worriers, too. In my work as a clinician, a predominance of people in therapy struggle with some form of anxiety, ...

Genetics control behavioral sequences that are building blocks for complex behavior patterns. Mice scurry around while foraging for food, but genetics may be the unseen hand controlling these ...

Florida State University College of Medicine researchers have linked aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in nearly 5,000 diet foods and drinks, to anxiety-like behavior in mice. Along with ...