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A doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Granada has proved that patients with serious anxiety disorders (panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder) think they suffer more physiological (palpitations, sweating, irregular breathing, shaking of the hands and muscular tension …) than they really have. [continue reading…]
America’s financial crises is fueling chronic stress and limiting some people’s ability to think clearly, control emotions and regulate bodily functions in a healthy manner. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Josh Klapow, Ph.D., says now is the time to take control of emotions and better regulate the mind-body stress response. Klapow is a clinical psychologist and author of “Living SMART: 5 Essential Skills to Change Your Health Habits Forever.” [continue reading…]
Everyone gets stressed, even babies. Now, it appears how infants respond to stress is linked to if they have a particular form of a certain gene, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Just as significantly, researchers say they have also found that good parenting – as early as within the first year of a child’s life – can counter the effect the gene has in babies who initially do not respond well to stressful situations. [continue reading…]
Bionomics Limited told an international congress on 1 September that its anxiety lead BNC210 is effective in models of anxiety in three different animal species and that it is safe and well tolerated at doses 10,000 times the minimum effective dose.
Bionomics’ new data were presented at the 2008 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Barcelona, Spain. [continue reading…]
