New research suggests that adolescents with high levels of social anxiety rely heavily on unhelpful mental habits to manage ...

Oxytocin is known to have anti-anxiety and anti-stress effects. Using a fear-potentiated startle paradigm in rats, we previously demonstrated that subcutaneously administered oxytocin suppressed ...

In students with trouble sleeping, there was also a link between higher anxiety and lower NK cell levels. This means that ...

Do you ever feel anxious when things are going well? You may feel like you’re forgetting something even after everything is finished or you keep looking ahead for the next thing to worry about. It’s ...

Anxiety is both a mental and physical state of negative expectation. Mentally it is characterized by increased arousal and apprehension tortured into distressing worry, and physically by unpleasant ...

Anxiety is a normal reaction to cancer. One may experience anxiety while undergoing a cancer screening test, waiting for test results, receiving a diagnosis of cancer, undergoing cancer treatment, or ...

“Hello darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.” Sometimes anxiety washes over me when I’m listening to music or watching TV. Sometimes in the middle of the night. Those ones are ...

If you dread the thought of getting up in front of a group of people and performing, you are not alone. Millions of people suffer from performance anxiety, commonly called "stage fright." In fact, ...

OCD and anxiety are separate mental health conditions with distinct symptoms. However, a person can have OCD and anxiety at the same time. Stress and anxiety can cause OCD symptoms to worsen.

While dizziness can be an anxiety symptom, it can also result from several other conditions, including inner ear disorders. Chronic anxiety can cause a wide range of symptoms, including headaches and ...