Anxiety driving you insane? Check your brain and cultivate your optimism

Diana Yates, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A new study links anxiety, a brain structure called the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and optimism, finding that healthy adults who have larger OFCs tend to be more optimistic and less anxious. The new analysis, reported in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, offers the first evidence that […]