http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Anxiety disorders are severely debilitating, the commonest cause of disability in the US workplace, and a source of great anguish to individuals and their families. Although fear and anxiety are part of our natural response to stress, the causes of chronic and inappropriate levels of anxiety are complex and treatments unsatisfactory. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-uk-scientists-pave-tackling-anxiety.html Neuroscience Mon, 09 May 2011 07:22:48 EST news224144019 Know thyself. That was Socrates' advice, and it squares with conventional wisdom. "It's a natural tendency to think we know ourselves better than others do," says Washington University in St. Louis assistant professor Simine Vazire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-psychologists.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 May 2011 12:44:35 EST news223818240 People with dementia may soon have improved oral hygiene because of a National Institutes of Health $1.4 million, four-year grant to Rita A. Jablonski, assistant professor of nursing, Penn State. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-penn-state-oral-hygiene-nursing.html Health Thu, 05 May 2011 10:57:21 EST news223811823 We all move around in a protective bubble of "near space," more commonly known as "personal space." But not everyone's bubble is the same size. People who project their personal space too far beyond their bodies, or the norm of arm's reach, are more likely to experience claustrophobic fear, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-psychologists-claustrophobic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:07:33 EST news221803630