Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
- NEWS
- 01 March 2023
Artificially raising a mouse’s heart rate leads to anxious behaviour.
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- Sara Reardon 1. Sara Reardon is a freelance journalist based in Bozeman, Montana.
Emotions such as fear and anxiety can make the heart beat faster. Now a study in mice has found that the reverse is also true — artificially increasing the heart rate can raise anxiety levels1.
References
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