Are Anxiety Disorders All in the Mind?
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 10:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction. read more
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