Anxiety disorders – defined by excessive fear, restlessness, and muscle tension – are debilitating, disabling, and can increase the risk for depression and suicide.They are some of the most ...

Anxiety disorders are the most common class of psychiatric disorders diagnosed in the United States, and women are consistently more likely than men to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder ...

According to the National Institute of Mental Health women are 60% more likely than men to experience an anxiety disorder over their lifetime.

Some clues—nervousness, dread over impending danger and rapid breathing—are common across gender lines, but these five ...

Three women with an extremely rare type of brain damage had never felt fear in their adult lives. Snakes and scary movies didn't do it for them. But when given a hit of carbon dioxide that made ...

It is true, though there's not really a single explanation for why, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, from their teens until the age of 50, women are twice as likely ...

People with the highest levels of phobic anxiety were shown to have telomere lengths similar to people who were a full six-years-older. The findings are published in the July 11 issue of PLoS One. ...

Three women with an extremely rare type of brain damage had never felt fear in their adult lives. Snakes and scary movies didn't do it for them. In fact, they couldn't even recognize a fearful ...

However, just because women are more likely to acknowledge feeling anxious doesn't necessarily mean that men are less anxious than women. The expression of anxiety in our culture is complicated by ...