Ask your classmates if they’ve ever had anxiety when speaking with someone new or going to a party, and we’re sure a few hands will go up. Raise the question with the adults in your life, and you’re ...

Almost everyone has felt some jitters before speaking in public or walking into a party. For some people, however, that everyday shyness can become so crippling that they’re unable to give a ...

When we first meet Anxiety, the latest emotion helping a 13-year-old girl named Riley in Disney's summer blockbuster "Inside Out 2," the character introduces herself by saying that Fear - another ...

NEW YORK - 1974: An artistic pre-Photoshop montage (created in the darkroom by layering negatives together) of a worried, stressed woman with a stopwatch literally on her mind in New York City, New ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vistagen (Nasdaq: VTGN), a late clinical-stage company dedicated to pioneering neuroscience based on nose-to-brain neurocircuitry, today announced ...

Feeling nervous in social situations is something we all experience from time to time, more often in situations where we may face criticism or experience rejection or evaluation; for example, going on ...

atai Life Sciences announces Phase 2 study of EMP-01 for social anxiety disorder, with results expected in Q1 2026. atai Life Sciences has announced the dosing of the first patient in a Phase 2 study ...

Social anxiety and agoraphobia share several characteristics. However, they are two distinct conditions with various key differences. Social anxiety and agoraphobia are two different conditions that ...

The trend of increased social phobia in the modern era, especially among the youth, has become a topic that researchers have been pursuing and tackling in the long term. Simultaneously, almost three ...

MIAMI — Symptoms of social phobia in children may be a harbinger of adolescent alcohol use, a new study suggests. "Social phobia seems to be a risk factor for alcohol use in kids, but it's not just ...

If you have anxiety, know that you are not alone. Anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness in the United States. Anxiety disorders include, but are not limited to, post traumatic ...

Did I do anything embarrassing? Why did I say that? Why did I do that? This has been my typical mental monologue after leaving a social catchup or event over the last few years. In the past, my social ...