It only takes a single fly to alight on your picnic lunch to make you uneasy about what germs may have landed with it. But what harm can come from a fly landing on your food? Should you throw it away?

Before I had kids, I despised Christmas. I thought the holiday was symbolic of everything that was fake, exploitative and wasteful about our culture. And nothing symbolized our population's sheep-like inability to think for itself than millions of economically strained people stampeding into debt because Television tells them they will offend Christ if they don't buy thousands of dollars of worthless crap.

People who experienced high anxiety any time in their lives had a 48 percent higher risk of developing dementia compared to those who had not, according to a new study led by USC researchers. The findings were based on an examination of 28 years of data from the Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging...

Is there anything to the parents’ claims? I’ve discussed the claims of “electro-hypersensitivity” (frequently abbreviated as EHS) before as being at the very least highly implausible, particularly the focus on wifi. In the modern world, we are bathed in electromagnetic waves from many sources, not just wifi. There are radio waves, mobile phone radiation, electromagnetic waves from electrical appliances and computers themselves, and many, many other sources.

Excessive worry is generally seen as a negative trait and high intelligence as a positive one, worry may cause our species to avoid dangerous situations. An anxious mind is a searching mind, meaning that people with anxiety are constantly analyzing, assessing, formulation ideas, reflecting, and processing information.

What doctors used to call mass hysteria usually occurs among close-knit groups as anxiety weaves its way through, causing physical symptoms. By Ian Sample.

New research suggests hallucinations can occur in relatively healthy people. By Simon Makin.

There’s plenty of research about suggesting that feeling uncertain can increase the strength of belief in god in different ways. But what’s not clear is whether belief in god reduces the ill effects of uncertainty, or is a response to it. One theory is that a belief in God provides a kind of reassurance, which reduces anxiety.

The social stigma around receiving mental health care appears to be changing in the United States, a new survey reveals. 

I’m from northern Vermont, and am the descendant of a long line of uptight Puritans and taciturn ice fishermen. Chattiness is not our bag. At parties, we’re big on nail-biting reticence and we tend...

This is a video from Wil Wheaton, (@wilw) an actor, writer and king of the internet . Wil is best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory. Wil talks about his struggles with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Wow, just wow.

In today's era of information overload, severe anxiety can certainly manifest into a full blown anxiety disorder. Here's how to end the cycle of fear.