Anxiety News

Emotional Strategies Influence Anxiety

May 14th, 2013
Emotional Strategies Influence AnxietyEveryone has their own strategy to manage emotions. For some, when trouble approaches, they do everything they can to avoid confrontation, for others, they look to make lemonade out of the ...

Anxiety Symptoms Often Accompany Chronic Pain

May 11th, 2013
Anxiety Disorders Often Accompany Chronic PainIndividuals suffering from chronic pain should be evaluated for anxiety disorders, according to a new study published in General Hospital Psychiatry. "I think [health care] providers are more aware of the ...

Real-time Brain Feedback May Help Overcome Anxiety, OCD

May 10th, 2013
Real-time Brain Feedback May Help Overcome Anxiety, OCD  People provided with a real-time readout of their brain activity can learn to control that activity and decrease their ...

Teens with Social Anxiety Engage in Earlier Alcohol, Marijuana Use

May 8th, 2013
Teens with Social Anxiety Engage in Earlier Alcohol, Marijuana UseAmong teens with substance use disorders, those who also have social anxiety disorder begin using marijuana at a mean age of 10.6 ...

Effects of Violent Video Games May Wane the More They are Played

May 7th, 2013
Effects of Violent Video Games Wane the More They are PlayedTeenaged boys who play violent video games three or more hours a day may be desensitized to the physiological and emotional effects of the ...

How Would High Blood Pressure Benefit Teens’ Adjustment, Quality of Life?

May 4th, 2013
Teens With High Blood Pressure Appear to Enjoy Better Quality of Life  In what may seem an unusual finding, teens with high blood pressure appear to be better psychologically adjusted and enjoy a higher ...

Self-Affirmation Can Improve Problem-Solving Under Stress

May 4th, 2013
Self-Affirmation Can Improve Problem-Solving Under Stress  New research shows that self-affirmation can protect against the damaging effects of stress on problem-solving. According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, self-affirmation is the process of identifying ...

Meditation Produces Opposite Effect of ‘Fight or Flight’

May 4th, 2013
Meditation Produces Opposite Effect of 'Fight or Flight' A new study reveals that practitioners of meditation experience changes in gene expression that are the exact opposite of what occurs during the "flight ...

Being Single, Quality of Relationship Influences Depression Risk

May 2nd, 2013
Being Single, Quality of Relationship Influences Depression RiskNew research finds that some people are better off not having a spouse than being in a poor relationship. University of Michigan researchers found that ...

Child Abuse, Later PTSD Show Distinctive Genetic Signature

May 2nd, 2013
Child Abuse, Later PTSD Show Distinctive Genetic SignatureAn international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways. Such discoveries have the ...