Tag: Research

We all get nervous around new people from time to time, but does the fear of social judgment keep you from making new friends? Do you struggle to put yourself in social environments because there may be someone you don’t know?...

Treatments integrating music and auditory beat stimulation are effective in reducing anxiety in some patients, a recent study suggested. The study by Adiel Mallik and Frank Russo of the Ryerson University, Canada was published in the open-access journal ‘PLOS ONE’. Anxiety...

Despite using antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), many pregnant women had lingering depression and anxiety symptoms throughout their pregnancy and postpartum, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The study also found anxiety symptoms are common in treated depressed women, with worsening...

The world’s first phase three trials of a new drug have shown that it can ease the often distressing symptom of chronic cough with few side effects. Principle researcher Jacky Smith, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The University of Manchester and...

Researchers and psychologists at The University of Melbourne aim to identify shared factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of depression, anxiety and eating symptomatology in endometriosis and whether factors may be differentially related to such psychological symptoms. Why we...

A couple of years ago, a woman named Joy Milne made headlines when scientists discovered that she could “smell” Parkinson’s disease (PD) on people with the neurodegenerative disorder. Since then, researchers have been trying to build devices that could diagnose PD...

The COVID-19 pandemic is an anxiety-inducing stressor that affects every aspect of our daily lives. A new Canadian study has found that the pandemic-related risk-factors associated with anxiety differ between men and women. The new nation-wide research, published online in the...

A recent study by researchers at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) has identified an abnormal link between the autonomic and central nervous systems, more specifically, via the communication between the heart and part of the brain’s frontal cortex, in...

A recent study by researchers at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) has identified an abnormal link between the autonomic and central nervous systems, more specifically, via the communication between the heart and part of the brain’s frontal cortex, in...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in depression and anxiety in expectant mums, a new study by the University of Essex has revealed. The research found social support protected against anxiety symptoms associated with the pandemic but highlighted changes to maternity...