Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, a study led b...

Growing evidence shows that the brain's dopamine system, which drives motivation, is directly affected by chronic, low-grade inflammation. A new paper propos...

Daily cannabis use increased significantly from 2008 to 2016 among those with and without past-month serious psychological distress (SPD) and use among those...

In training and lectures I discuss the role of developing HD 4K goals to support motivational enhancement with clients as well as reduce anxiety. This is be...

According to some estimates, up to one in three people around the world may experience severe anxiety in their lifetime. In a study described today in Cell R...

Traumatic experiences can become deeply entrenched in a person's memory. How can fears following a traumatic event be reduced in the long term and prevented ...

Having extolled the virtues of Tetris in reducing trauma, it appears tat this classic vintage game is also helpful for managing anxiety.The venerable video g...

Do you like to see warnings about violent or other distressing content before watching a TV show or movie, or reading a book? New University of Michigan rese...

Without realizing it we make use of emotion regulation strategies all the time and they are crucial for everyday life. This is the control we subconsciously ...

Psychiatric medications have focused heavily on neurotransmitters as the basis of mental health disorders.Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical C...

In lectures on anxiety and trauma I describe how the re-writing of memories can alter the emotional response we experience from psychologically painful exper...

Anxiety is often produced by the generalization of negative experiences. Usually, the more novel the negative experience the more anxiety in can generate. ...

More research on the effect of third person perspectives on anxiety reveals that social embarrassment can be reduced by shifting perspective. As I explain i...

It has long been a puzzle whether fear of spiders and snakes was hard wired in us or learned. However, a research team the Max Planck Institute for Human Cog...

More research has emerge regarding self-perception and anxiety. In lecturers I demonstrate how anxiety can be reduced by taking a birds-eye view of self in ...