Anxiety and other self-help scams abound on the Internet, with enticing promises of quick cures .
When your daily life is debilitated with anxiety, depression or other health issues to the point where you’re ready to try anything, internet marketers are waiting to trade on your desperation.
On his website Clinical Psychologist Dave Carbonell, Director at Anxiety Treatment Center Chicago, offers some tip-offs that you might be looking at a scam. Curious ? Continue reading
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Today in Big Think’s Month of Going Mental: How the Brain Fears
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Researchers from the University of Granada have analyzed in what measure being of an anxious disposition and being anxious at a given moment affects attention. This study may help develop specific therapies allowing patients with anxiety disorders to control themselves. This article is being published in the next issue of the prestigious journal Psychological Science.
A research conducted at the University of Granada has identified the different effects of being of a nervous disposition and being anxious at a given moment on what happens around us. Being of a nervous disposition and being anxious at a given moment affects our attention to what happens.
This study formulates the hypothesis that rufinamide, a drug so far used against epilepsy, may also be effective in bipolar disorder, depressive and anxiety disorders, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. It is just an hypothesis based on two cases that needs to be confirmed by specific studies. [continue reading…]
