People with higher levels of social anxiety are more likely to remember faces they saw while making mistakes, and this may be due to how their brains respond to errors in the moment. A new study ...

SAD is the second most commonly diagnosed anxiety disorder, affecting nearly 15 million adults in the U.S. There are two types of social anxiety disorder: generalized and non-generalized.

Anxiety exists on a spectrum, with normal, healthy worry on one end and debilitating anxiety disorders on the other. While occasional anxiety serves as a natural alert system that helps humans ...

Depressed, anxious, and stuck? Your "lizard brain" may be part of the problem. New research shows how the amygdala helps us to figure out others’ mental states.

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion regulation, plays a key role in the emergence of conditions such as anxiety ...

“If someone gets stuck in fear/safety, they might constantly scan their environment for danger, catastrophize situations, or live in a near-constant state of hypervigilance,” Thiry said. You might not ...