NPR had a nice piece on the emotional impact of the economic recession. From resilience to panic to suicide attempts, NPR covers it all. You can read it here: Economic Crisis, Unemployment Take Emotional Toll. Or you can listen to it here.
This is a brief follow-up to my fourth post on anxiety: “Biological Aspects of Stress and Anxiety.” In researching for the next topic for the blog, I ran across a video about Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers. The video is short but makes a dramatic point about the effects …
This is the fifth post in the series on anxiety. This post covers the relationship between the 3rd and 4th posts. That is, the relationship between some of the stress reduction techniques and the biology of the stress model. Once more, I need to repeat that this is a tremendous simplification of a highly complex …
This is the fourth installment on the topic of anxiety. By necessity, this discussion of the biological aspects of anxiety will be limited to a simplified overview. If you would like a thorough discussion, allow me to direct you to “Neuroendocrine pharmacology of stress,” or “The Neuroendocrinology of Stress” or “The Neuropsychology of Anxiety: Reprise.” …