{"id":205323,"date":"2025-02-03T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/turning-off-anxiety-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-switch"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:33:27","slug":"turning-off-anxiety-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/turning-off-anxiety-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-switch","title":{"rendered":"Turning Off Anxiety: Scientists Discover the Brain\u2019s Hidden Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-off-anxiety-scientists-discover-the-brains-hidden-switch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Using light-sensitive drugs, they identified a promising neural pathway that could lead to more effective, safer anxiety treatments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Targeting Anxiety with Brain Circuit Research<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a specific brain circuit that, when inhibited, reduces anxiety without causing noticeable side effects \u2014 at least in preclinical models. Their findings highlight a potential new target for treating anxiety disorders and introduce a broader strategy for studying drug effects in the brain using a technique called photopharmacology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using light-sensitive drugs, they identified a promising neural pathway that could lead to more effective, safer anxiety treatments. Targeting Anxiety with Brain Circuit Research Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a specific brain circuit that, when inhibited, reduces anxiety without causing noticeable side effects \u2014 at least in preclinical models. Their findings highlight a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}