anxiety

Mice pairs with similar anxiety levels produce offspring more quickly than coupled animals with differing personalities, according to a recent study.

In mice, a transcriptional regulator, β-catenin, activates a microRNA-processing pathway in the nucleus accumbens to promote resilience to social stress.

A crustacean appears anxious after a stressful experience, but a drug can fix it, according to a new study.

Using psychedelic drugs does not increase one’s risk of developing mental health problems, researchers show.

A compound that targets a particular opioid receptor in the amygdala reduces the formation of PTSD-like systems in mice subjected to severe trauma.

A psychiatric drug in the water can cause perch to be less social, more voracious hunters.

Anxiety about rejection is associated with fewer infection-fighting T-cells.

Anxious mice are more likely to come down with aggressive skin cancer than those who show less stress on behavioral tests.

A year and a half after soldiers have returned from war, impairments in the regulatory circuitry of the amygdala remain.