Cognitive behavioural therapy can alter brain activity in kids with anxiety issue: Study, ET HealthWorld

Cognitive behavioural therapy can alter brain activity in kids with anxiety issue: Study, ET HealthWorld

Maryland: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered overactivation in multiple brain regions, including the frontal and parietal lobes and the amygdala, in unmedicated children with anxiety disorders. They also demonstrated that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) improved clinical symptoms as well as brain function. The findings shed light on the brain mechanisms that underpin …

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