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From Stanford: People with anxiety disorder less able to regulate response to negative emotions, study shows. People with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, have abnormalities in the way their brain unconsciously controls emotions, a new study shows.

(I'm not thrilled with the image, especially if this is really what my brain looks like, I think I'd prefer green and yellow. Or at least orange.)

From the New York Times: The American Psychiatric Association is proposing major changes today to its diagnostic bible, the manual that doctors, insurers and scientists use in deciding what's officially a mental disorder and what symptoms to treat. Alan Schatzberg, the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, provides comment in this Associated Press piece.

What to think about all this? I think gazing at a photo like the one below (Fremont Older Open Space) is a much better way to approach the problem of anxiety. Better yet, let's go for a walk.