How we deal with anxiety can make it easier or more difficult to thrive in many areas of life. Here's how therapy can help—and what happens in the brain when it works, by NeighborhoodPsy
In addition, significant correlations with anxiety reduction and decreased activity in the left supplementary motor area were found. This area is one of the regions targeted in TMS for the treatment of OCD: Slowing down activity here is thought to interrupt rapidly looping neural circuits associated with both repetitive physical behaviors as well as intrusive, recurrent thoughts.These findings are important because they synthesize and confirm the prior work, setting the stage for future studies.
systems, notably the hippocampus, are negatively impacted by chronic elevated anxiety and stress, closely related with amygdala activity.Likewise, activity in the insula also decreased, an area of the brain related to physical and emotional disgust, both of oneself and things outside of oneself. In addition to anxiety, the authors note, these same brain areas are involved with depression, OCD, and PTSD.
Understanding that these brain regions work together as a network, rather than as standalone areas, is important in order to make sense of how therapy impacts the brain. There isn’t one “anxiety area"—the overall picture of anxiety for each of us depends on the complex interplay of many brain regions, both in terms of how strong we feel fear-based feelings, as well as how we cope and make sense of such experiences.
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