Depression and anxiety may heighten cardiovascular disease risk through chronic stress pathways in the brain and body.

Anxiety is both a mental and physical state of negative expectation—mentally characterized by increased arousal and negative expectancy tortured into worry, and physically by activation of multiple ...

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...

In a study released on Nov. 20, 2013, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have found that measuring the size and connectivity of the amygdala—a part of the brain associated with ...

Patients with depression are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, and a new study suggests that stress may help explain ...

For some people a single small irritation can wreck their entire day, while others can swiftly shake off minor problems and move on. A new study led by researchers from the University of Miami is ...

Fasedienol is a first-in-class pherine nasal spray that is designed to modulate the olfactory-limbic amygdala fear and anxiety neurocircuits.

Depression and anxiety are linked to a higher risk of heart attack, heart disease and stroke, and researchers now think they ...

A recent study revealed depression and anxiety are associated with increased risk of cardiac diseases, and stroke.According ...