There’s a surprising common thread in the anxious brain—and it may have to do with what’s on your plate.
Young adults with high social anxiety show heightened activity in the brain's visual processing areas. These neural changes explain their high alertness to social threats and offer a physical marker ...
People with anxiety disorders have lower levels of choline in their brains, according to research from UC Davis Health. The study, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, analyzed data ...
As humans grow older, their emotional stability and sleep patterns can change significantly. For instance, some past studies ...
Combining data from two types of brain scans significantly improved predictions of future anxiety in teens. Kids who were shy or cautious as babies showed different brain patterns tied to future ...
When you're a teenager, it's easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of self‐consciousness fades as they grow up. For others, it deepens into full‐blown ...
The preliminary study suggested that young people with weaker connections between two brain areas involved in both attending to and regulating responses to anxiety were more likely to benefit from a ...
As people grow older, many parts of the body change, including sleep patterns and emotional health. Older adults often report that they sleep less deeply than they did when they were younger. At the ...
It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...
A recent brain imaging study reveals that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder consists of at least two distinct physical subtypes. This discovery suggests that patients may eventually benefit ...
A neuroimaging study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging has identified hyperactivity in the superior occipital ...
It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...