Kids and teens are more likely to be prescribed medication than to go to therapy, a new study has found. The study, published in Pediatrics on Wednesday, showed that although the number of kids with ...

In the 1960s, major pharmaceutical companies began a concerted effort to find new and better treatments for problems related to fear and anxiety. However, new kinds of antianxiety medications have not ...

Social anxiety disorder is treatable with drugs, but these older medications typically take a long time to start working and they don’t work well for everyone. Vistagen Therapeutics is developing a ...

Almost 20% of US adults deal with one or more anxiety disorders each year, according to statistics shared by the Anxiety & Depression Association of America. That equates to around 40 million people.

Shares of Vistagen (NASDAQ:VTGN) plunged 78.8% on Wednesday after the biopharmaceutical company disclosed that its Phase 3 ...

Beta-Blockers for Anxiety: What Are They? Beta-blockers are medications that slow down certain types of cell activity in your body. Doctors often prescribe them to treat heart and circulatory problems ...

She and her family weren’t planning to stay, but between her pessimism about receiving grant funding and her anxiety about ...

In many streams and rivers, fish are swimming in a veritable soup of drugs. Components of that soup may be disrupting their behavior, according to a new study. Atlantic salmon exposed to anti-anxiety ...