Scientists may have found the root of anxiety, opening a door to treatment

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Scientists may have found the root of anxiety, opening a door to treatment - Inverse

"For people suffering from anxiety, this news should give hope."

When anxiety takes hold, it’s a full-body experience. It’s hard to imagine that these all-encompassing symptoms could emanate from a few specific cells, but new research points to just such a neural home for anxiety in the brain.

Using a specific class of cells as a target, researchers hope that they’ll be able to develop more precise and effective treatments for anxiety.

A new treatment that could prevent anxiety symptoms may be lurking in a small population of microglia is described in a paper published this week in Cell Reports.
 
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