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“That’s something that had been underappreciated before our study, and we were able to get at that because we had such high-resolution data.” Both anxiety and depression involve amygdala hyperactivity ...

And the findings on our skills thinking about what others might be thinking could one day lead to treatments for psychiatric conditions like anxiety and depression. The study was published Nov ...

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