How can stress cause anxiety? Blame the brain’s cannabis

Monday, August 29, 2016 - 11:41 in Health & Medicine

A new study by Tulane University researchers shows what happens in the brain when stress triggers anxiety. Stress and anxiety are two closely linked emotions that are both generated in the limbic system of the brain. Stress contributes to a state of anxiety by prompting the production of a natural cannabinoid that disrupts the regulation […]

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