The Anxiety Treatment We Have Been Waiting For May Already Exist | Troy Rohn | KAJ Masterclass

The Anxiety Treatment We Have Been Waiting For May Already Exist | Troy Rohn | KAJ Masterclass

May 31, 2026 · 28 min

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Dr. Troy Rohn discusses a new perspective on anxiety as a circuit problem and the potential of gene therapy in treatment.

Dr. Troy Rohn has spent two decades in neuroscience research, lived with anxiety his entire life, and co-founded a biotech company trying to treat it in a way no drug has managed before. In this conversation with host KAJ, he makes a quiet but striking case: that anxiety is not a mystery, it is a circuit problem — and gene therapy may finally be precise enough to address it at the source.The conversation covers what anxiety actually is, why current medications fail a third of the people who take them, the difference between RNA and DNA therapies, and what a world looks like where mental health treatment is personalised to your own genetic makeup. Accessible, honest, and quietly hopeful.=========================================KAJ Masterclass LIVEA video-first, live-first global conversation ecosystem — editorially independent, depth-driven, and supporter-sustained. Hosted by independent journalist Khudania Ajay (KAJ), KAJ Masterclass explores leadership, business, AI, careers, health, creativity, ideas, and the evolving human experience through thoughtful, unscripted conversations grounded in lived experience, clarity, and real-world insight.Every conversation is designed to…

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Host: Khudania Ajay

Guest: Dr. Troy Rohn

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Organizations: University of Washington, biotech company

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