Insomnia, depression, and anxiety are the most common mental disorders. Treatments are often only moderately effective, with ...

Researchers found that rats experiencing anxiety-like behavior in a common behavioral test breathed more rapidly and that this change in breathing influenced brain rhythms in a key frontal brain area.

A study in people fails to detect differences in the brain’s response to fear or anxiety, long thought to be controlled by different neural circuits. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...

However, a growing body of evidence suggests that some cytokines also influence the brain, leading to behavioral ... In the amygdala, IL-17 can elicit feelings of anxiety, while in the cortex ...

The new research maps a network of cytokine signals that interact with specific brain cells to regulate mood, anxiety, and social behavior. If confirmed in further studies in animals and people ...

Patients suffering from depression, anxiety and trauma-related disorders experienced significant relief from their symptoms after a new treatment that uses sound waves to modulate deep brain ...