The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS) is a test of anxiety as a personality trait. The link below directs you to a page in which you can inquire about your behavior and emotions. Consider each statement carefully. Then indicate whether the statements are generally true or false for you: https://psychology-tools.com/taylor-manifest-anxiety-scale/ ... Continue Reading →
Can the implantation of positive self-defining memories reduce trait anxiety…
Veronika V. Nourkova and Darya A. Vasilenko, psychologists from the Lomonosov Moscow University, have explored the potential benefits of implanting false positive memories in anxiety sufferers to see if they can be freed from their difficult pasts. The researchers recruited 120 volunteers—73 female and 47 male. Each individual was assessed to identify those with a greater tendency... Continue Reading →
Cognitive maintenance model of Social Anxiety…
Social anxiety is used to describe feelings of anxiety and fear that occur in response to social situations. Even the most confident of people can get a little anxious before a presentation, or when they're meeting new people, but in social anxiety this distress can be so overwhelming that it feels as though its difficult... Continue Reading →
Study finds anxiety to help with memory…
A study from the University of Waterloo investigated whether anxious individuals, who adopted an inherently negative mindset, could demonstrate a particularly salient memory bias for words tainted by negative contexts. The study population of eighty (sixty-four females) undergraduate students found that manageable levels of anxiety (all participants completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales) actually aided participants in being able to... Continue Reading →
Generalized Anxiety Disorder…
A chapter discussing and understanding generalized anxiety disoder (GAD). In doing so, the nature of human anxiety is disorder in addtion to the development of specific interventions for GAD. It is believed that developing interventions for its amelioration could contribute significantly to the understanding and treatment of adult emotional disorders. Link to chapter: GAD Chapter
Kripalu Yoga treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder…
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a prevalent psychiatric disorder associated with substantial impairment and poor treatment response. It is believed that yoga influences processes that are linked to the maintenance of GAD including mindfulness, anxiety, and heart rate variability, but has yet to be evaluated among people with the disorder. The presented study (2016) is... Continue Reading →
Mindfulness…
An interesting article exploring how mindfulness meditation may help alleviate depression and possibly anxiety. Before you have a read of the article, remember mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally. Also recall the the work Jon Kabat-Zinn (1979) in which chronically ill patients were recruited into an... Continue Reading →
Fundamental differences in perception found in those with anxiety…
Anxiety disorders are common mental disorders known to affect 18.1 percent of the adult population (according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America). Though everyone experiences some level of anxiety in their life, studies show that individuals diagnosed with an anxiety disorder might actually perceive the world differently. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel conducted... Continue Reading →
Potentially new antidepressant treatment…
Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a potential new antidepressant and antianxiety treatment with a unique mechanism of action. The newly developed compound, known as BU10119, works in a different way to the most common antidepressant drugs such as SSRIs, in that unlike SSRIs which target the serotonin system in the brain, BU10119 works by blocking receptors... Continue Reading →