This year a clinical trial will test a drug combination designed to bring lasting relief for people with panic disorder – a condition that can upend daily life and be notoriously difficult to treat.

A neurosurgeon explains what a panic attack really feels like, using a vivid example to show how intense and real the ...

The SAHMRI Clinical Trials Platform is one of 20 sites hosting a nationwide clinical trial now underway to test a potential new treatment for panic disorder, a debilitating anxiety condition that ...

Musician and author Izzy Judd says she has learned to live with anxiety and to calm her mind.

If you have ever suffered from panic attacks then you know how terrifying they can be. Your first panic attack came out of nowhere-you suddenly found yourself shaking, trembling with fear, short of ...

In the spring, many people may experience increased anxiety and panic attacks due to body restructuring and lifestyle changes ...

What happens to the body during a panic attack? Dr Hoeflinger breaks it down, based on his medical expertise and a 20-year ...

A new randomized trial shows that short bursts of supervised high-intensity exercise may retrain the brain’s fear response to bodily sensations, offering a scalable and engaging new therapeutic ...

Panic attacks are sudden bouts of intense fear without an obvious cause. An estimated 10% of people experience at least one panic attack in their lifetime. But between 2% and 3% of the population have ...

“I felt trapped in my head … overwhelmed with everything,” says Jen Lancaster of the anxiety that plagued since she was a child. “I couldn’t control the racing thoughts, because I didn't know racing ...

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...

Panic-like behaviour and fear-induced antinociception represent a compelling intersection of neurobiological processes that regulate both the emotional and sensory responses to acute threats. This ...