Anxiety May Hinder Your Sense of Danger

May 21, 2012, 8:30 am by Scientific American: Mind and Brain

Worrywarts, beware: all that fretting may be for naught. Anxiety has long been interpreted as a symptom of hyperawareness and sensitivity to danger, but a study published last December in Biological Psychology turns that logic on its head. [More]

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