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November 04, 2010
Scientists Locate Brain's "Worry Center."
The UK's Press Association (11/3) reports that after using "functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of 12 volunteers while they played a video game designed to create feelings of threat and anxiety," UK scientists "located the brain's 'worry centre' in a region normally linked to memory."
This discovery "could lead to the development of new therapies in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorders focusing on the hippocampus."
Study co-author Adam Perkins said, "Anxiety and fear were once thought of as wholly learned disease states; however, it is now widely suspected they are useful responses to threat that keep the individual away from trouble."
Related Links:
- "Experiences link to 'worry centre'," Press Assocation, November 3, 2010.
Posted by admin at November 4, 2010 10:36 AM