Anxiety

Dean Mobbs, Ph.D., of Columbia University, will study how the brain responds to, learns to avoid, and gauges threat, with implication for anxiety disorders. Employing behavioral and imaging techniques Dr. Mobbs and colleagues will track the activity of emotional circuits involved in threat response and attempt to identify crucial points in brain circuits that can translate a normal threat response into symptoms of anxiety. The developed model will then be tested on anxiety patients to verify this study’s efficacy in helping to characterize anxiety disorder, which manifests with a diverse range of symptoms.