Anxiety itself is not a mental illness. It's a normal, adaptive emotion that helps us respond to perceived threats. Anxiety ...

Every living creature has a threat-avoidance response that involves every cell in their bodies. Humans are unique in that we possess language and can name it. Anxiety is a word that describes this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might think of anxiety as just that nagging worry in the back of your head or the occasional nervous stomach before a big ...

With May 1 marking the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, may we boldly ask, “What does anxiety mean to you?” Sounds audacious, but that was the question posed to strangers in a couple of New ...

Anxiety had been thought to originate in the amygdala, but now the specific region in the amygdala where it lurks has been identified. Mice that were genetically modified to over-express a certain ...