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Anxious man looking out of his bedroom window on a sunny day

Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’

07 May 2026

First major RCT on evolutionary psychiatry finds mental health clinicians are far more likely to say describing anxiety as an evolved survival...

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Deep brain stimulation successful for one in two patients with treatment-resistant severe depression and anxiety

18 Nov 2025

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of ‘pacemaker’ – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with...

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Jon Simons, by Susana Camacho

The Cambridge view on memory

15 May 2025

By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our...

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Olivia Remes in Lammas Land

Fighting anxiety with science: exploring the links between self-control and wellbeing

25 Jun 2021

Dr Olivia Remes has spent her career researching mental health and wellbeing. In her new book, The Instant Mood Fix, she brings together the research...

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Digital support

10 Feb 2021

Research published today shows how digital providers are coming together to support the mental health needs of millions of users unable to access...

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Mindfulness meditation

Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to work for everyone

11 Jan 2021

Mindfulness courses can reduce anxiety, depression and stress and increase mental wellbeing within most but not all non-clinical settings, say a team...

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11 hip-hop artists who had something to say about mental health

09 Dec 2020

How hip hop artists are opening up about their struggles with depression and anxiety, helping reduce stigma and encouraging others to seek support.

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Coronavirus

Opinion: Five ways to beat anxiety and take back control of your life during the COVID-19 pandemic – based on science

19 Mar 2020

Anxiety is tough to deal with at the best of time. It’s even tougher when we’re in the midst of a pandemic that is causing chaos around the globe. Dr...

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Genetic variation linked to response to anxiety could inform personalised therapies

01 Jul 2019

A new study in marmoset monkeys suggests that individual variation in genes alters our ability to regulate emotions, providing new insights that...

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Mentoring can reduce anxiety, study finds

11 Sep 2018

Mentoring of junior colleagues can reduce anxiety and improve the mental health of the mentors themselves, finds a new study.

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Sense of control and meaning helps protect women from anxiety, study suggests

24 Apr 2018

People who feel in control of their lives and who find purpose and meaning in life are less likely to have anxiety disorders even when going through...

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Scientists identify mechanism that helps us inhibit unwanted thoughts

03 Nov 2017

Scientists have identified a key chemical within the ‘memory’ region of the brain that allows us to suppress unwanted thoughts, helping explain why...

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