The Nutrient Your Stress System Overuses

About this episode

This episode explores a new brain-imaging meta-analysis revealing a consistent biochemical signature across multiple anxiety disorders and its implications.

A new brain-imaging meta-analysis has uncovered the first consistent biochemical signature across multiple anxiety disorders (a shift in a single molecule that moves in the opposite direction of every major psychiatric condition studied to date). Even more surprising, a separate study in young adults under metabolic strain reveals a nearly identical pattern emerging outside the brain. In this episode, we trace the science behind this unexpected overlap, follow the trail of this overworked mol...

People in this episode

Host: William Wallace

Topics covered

• stress
• anxiety
• biochemical signature
• brain imaging
• metabolic strain

Keywords

• stress system
• biochemical signature
• anxiety disorders
• brain imaging
• metabolic strain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: anxiety disorders, brain-imaging meta-analysis, young adults

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