Brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety
According to a recent national survey on 42 subjects from a pool of 1,099 undergraduate college students using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety.
By using psychological tests to categorize them as “high anxious apprehension,” “high anxious arousal,” or neither, the anxious apprehension (verbal rumination, worry) group exhibited enhanced left-brain activity and the anxious arousal (intense fear, panic, or both) group had heightened activity in the right brain.
Joe Barry – Causes of Panic Attacks
Here is a very informative article from Joe Barry who is an internationally reknown panic disorder coach. This article starts with the definition of anxiety, followed by explanation on fight/flight response as one root cause and attempts to answer all the questions on causes of anxiety. A recommended reading that provides deep insight.
The short and obvious answer: panic attacks are caused by high anxiety. But, what exactly is anxiety? Understanding how anxiety crops up will help you defeat panic attacks.
Depression, Fatigue and Anxiety
If you suffers from depression, take more rest in order to have higher work productivity. Studies shows that depression coupled with fatigue, sleep problems or anxiety causes greater significant drop in productivity than just depression along. In addition, the study also showed that co-occurring fatigue or sleep problems significantly increased depression-related healthcare cost.
Depression, anxiety may be helped by yoga
Yoga may help those that suffer from depression and anxiety. Boston researchers suggested that this is possible by elevating brain gamma-aminobutyric, or GABA, levels.
Low GABA levels are some indications of depression and anxiety disorders. Thus, pharmaceutical agents are designed to increase GABA levels. By using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, to compare the GABA levels of eight subjects have found to increase 27 percent GABA levels after one hour of yoga.
How to cure anxiety ? Looks like ancient relaxation does help.
Shoe Shop Prank Video
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Generalized anxiety disorder symptoms
A lot of us have some kind of worries in our lives at some of time which we do not spent a large amount of wasted time in pondering over them. However, there are others who constantly worry over anything and everything may be suffering from GAD otherwise known as Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Along with other [...]
