Researchers have found in animal studies that the brain's reward chemical dopamine can trigger both desire and dread. While scientists have for long known that dopamine motivates animals and people to ...

If there’s ever been findings from a study more personally relatable than the one I’m about to detail, I’ve yet to find it. New research from The Sleep Judge (an organization that helps people get a ...

Thinking about death can cause us to feel a sort of existential angst that isn't attributable to a specific source. Now, new research suggests that acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain medication, ...

Anxiety, like pain, is one of those amorphous symptom categories that are about as precise, taxonomically, as the two-letter state code on an envelope. Psychiatric diagnoses help get us a little ...