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In the urban canyons, pedestrians shuffle in shadowed gullies carved between skyscrapers. Enclosed by hundreds of stories of steel and concrete, the hapless passersby feel the buildings loom over them like dark sentries.

Anxious people have a heightened sense of smell when it comes to sniffing out a threat, according to a new study by Elizabeth Krusemark and Wen Li from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.

A study from the Stanford University School of Medicine is published this week in Psychological Science showing that children who experience difficulty with math exhibit an altered brain function from anxiety.

To add to our knowledge about the relationship between bipolar disorder and anxiety, a new study shows that teens with anxiety were more likely to have experienced bipolar symptoms at a younger age than teens without anxiety.

Receiving a diagnosis of cancer can have a significant emotional toll on an individual. Prostate cancer presents a unique set of stressors to men because it affects their sexual performance.

For people at risk of panic, performance of regular, high-level exercise may be the tonic that can help to reduce anxiety.

Children who witness domestic violence are more likely to be in abusive intimate relationships and experience psychological problems such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adulthood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Blogging may have psychological benefits for teens suffering from social anxiety, improving their self-esteem and helping them relate better to their friends, according to new research....

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the elderly, but little is known about the underlying biology of its development in older

Many children feel nervous about going to school for the first time or returning to school after a summer off. Here are tips for kids and parents on managing the back-to-school jitters.