Several anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and specific phobias, share a common underlying trait: increased sensitivity to uncertain threat, or fear of the unknown, report researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The finding could help steer treatment of these disorders away from diagnosis-based therapies to [...]
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A new study reports young children with autism don’t avoid eye contact on purposes, but do miss the significance of the social information in others’ eyes. Continue Reading
The hungrier the mouse, the more risk it will take to grab cheese on the floor of a home with a house cat. “But how does it make this risk-reward computation?” asks Michael Nitabach, professor of cellular and molecular physiology and professor of genetics at Yale. Continue Reading