Climber Alex Honnold is set to scale one of the world's tallest buildings without any ropes or safety nets.

Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative ...

The amygdala is a part of the brain important for emotional responses, especially fear. It is thought to be important in anxiety disorders. A new UC Davis study reveals new cell types in different ...

Bottom line: This study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 diabetes. In stressful situations, this circuit from the ...

The size of the amygdala, its degree of connectivity to other parts of the brain—stress may boost its connections—and its threshold of activation may naturally vary among people, predisposing to ...

And the longer you live in this heightened state, the harder it gets for you to return to being able to take things in stride ...

Recent medical research indicates that the heightened risk of heart disease observed in patients with depression or anxiety ...

Researchers believe that anybody can experience a bout of debilitating anxiety. But some people seem to be dispositionally inclined to anxiety: Their defense systems—possibly tuned by genes or ...