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Anxiety
How Coffee Affects the Brain, Body, and Health
(Neuroscience News) You’re reading this with a cup of coffee in your hand, aren’t you? Coffee is the most popular drink in the world. Americans drink more coffee than soda, juice, and tea — combined.
Science: Social Anxiety and Telomere Link Established — Your Unchecked Anxiety is Killing Your Cells
(Justin Deschamps) The following article shows several studies and advances in scientific understanding that suggest prolonged and unchecked anxiety can lead to declines in overall health. What the article doesn’t make clear is how to contend with this, which I will briefly do now.
Evolutionary Changes in Brain Potentially Make Us More Prone to Anxiety
(Science Daily) Neurochemicals such as serotonin and dopamine play crucial roles in cognitive and emotional functions of our brain. Vesicular monoamine transporter 1 (VMAT1) is one of the genes responsible for transporting neurotransmitters and regulating neuronal signaling. A research team led by Tohoku University has reconstructed ancestral VMAT1 proteins, revealing the functional changes in neurotransmitter uptake of VMAT1 throughout the course of human evolution.
The Chemistry of Anxiety
(Exploring Your Mind) Anxiety is an important mechanism that has ensured the survival of the human species. In the modern world, however, that same chemical response often harms instead of helping humans.
This Is What Hating Your Job Does To Your Body
(Mayukh Saha) To achieve joy and satisfaction at work is as good as finding the golden chalice. But sadly only a few are destined to find bliss and contentment in our work. For the rest, it is a life of drudgery which eventually takes its toll on our health. But you can change that.
Stressed to the Max? Deep Sleep Can Rewire the Anxious Brain
(Neuroscience News) When it comes to managing anxiety disorders, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth had it right when he referred to sleep as the “balm of hurt minds.” While a full night of slumber stabilizes emotions, a sleepless night can trigger up to a 30% rise in anxiety levels, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.
When Anxiety Takes Over Your Life, You’re not You
(Justin Deschamps) When we feel threatened, the older parts of the brain override the thinking version of you. The conscious identity you experience as your everyday you will slip away, being replaced by a “triggered version” that has different values.
The First Panic Attack and What Happens Next
(Exploring Your Mind) Having a first panic attack is terrifying, so much so that many people believe they’re having a heart attack. What scares then the most about that first experience is the fear of the unknown. Thus, what happens next is a persistent fear that it could happen again.
Crystalline Nutrients: Lion’s Mane Mushroom Proven as Natural Anxiety and Depression Treatment
Crystalline Nutrients has released another short nutrition science video describing how Lion’s Mane Mushroom has been studied and shown to be an effective natural treatment for anxiety and depression. Be sure to subscribe to their channel for more nutrition science content and be sure to share this Stillness in the Storm article with some interested […]
Fear — Fight or Flight: Why Stress Makes You Crave Carbs
(Isabelle Z.) When you’ve had a bad day, how often do you reward yourself with something chocolatey or a big bag of chips? It might sound like a rom-com cliché, but the urge for carbs can be quite strong when we’re under stress – and there’s a perfectly good scientific explanation for these cravings.
Panic Attacks And Anxiety Episodes Linked To Vitamin Deficiencies In Groundbreaking Study
(Elizabeth DeVille) With approximately 40 million adults across the United States experiencing anxiety each year, scientists and researchers have dedicated their careers to trying to better understand this condition. Despite this work, we are still somewhat unclear on what actually causes this condition to occur.
Do You Suffer From Anxiety-Induced Chest Pain?
(Exploring Your Mind) Anxiety almost always manifests itself with physical symptoms. Different people experience different symptoms, but one of the most distressing ones is chest pain. Keep reading to learn more about this phenomenon and how to tell the difference between anxiety-induced chest pain and something more serious.
The Truth About the Rise in Children’s Mental Disorders
(Peter Gray Ph.D.) Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past 50 to 70 years. Today, by at least some estimates, five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it holds even when the measures and criteria are constant.
Simple Way to Handle Stress and Anxiety as It’s Happening, and Science Proves It
(Anna Hunt) Life is complicated. Even when we know we shouldn’t over-react to stressful situations, freak-outs happen. It takes practice and perseverance to train ourselves to stay calm when everything around us falls apart.