Podcast: Under the Cortex features Michael Kramer from the University of Zurich to discuss how, as individuals step up to ...

Are you worried, restless, or having trouble concentrating most of the time? It could be anxiety. This common mental health ...

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From mastering fire and eradicating diseases to inventing the internet and exploring space, humans have displayed remarkable ...

The Rising Threat of Wildfires In recent years, wildfires have become a grim reminder of the fragility of human life a ...

Inclusion of measures of depression and anxiety to the American Heart Association Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) prediction model has little additional impact on risk ...

In adolescent male mice, hippocampal neurogenesis regulates dominance behavior independently of anxiety, revealing a novel function for this cellular process. Natural variations in hippocampal ...

Long working hours (>40 hrs/week) may seem like a sign of commitment, but they can increase stress, and health risks, and ...

Stress can trigger both responses. And anxiety itself can lead to depression. In fact, nearly 70 percent of people who suffer from depression also have anxiety, and 50 percent of those with ...

Other brain areas also respond to the threat, and the signals they generate turn on the stress response ... including its role in anxiety. How do anxiety and depression differ in the brain?

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness has set off alarms and panic from local school ...