Brain stimulation that reduces anxiety
Researchers have found a brain stimulation that help patients with anxiety and depression. The findings, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, found that 20 minutes of “targeted electrical stimulation” to the frontal context reduces anxiety.
“It works by having people practice a simple task where they have to repeatedly ignore certain unhelpful information, such as angry faces, or negative words, that would normally grab their attention,” Lead author, Dr. Patrick Clarke, from the University of Western Australia, said.
“The more the task can help people to direct their attention away from this type of unhelpful information, the more benefit they tend to get from it in terms of lower anxiety,” he added.
The study was conducted in collaboration with Oxford University researchers and involved 77 volunteers.
