Anxious? Relax. It's Good For You.
I don't know about you but I don't like when I have knots in my stomach. Or my hands get clammy, or I start to sweat a lot. But did you know those signs of anxiety could actually help you? A new study says feeling anxious in a crisis could be good for you. New findings by French researchers show that the brain devotes more processing resources to social situations that signal threat than those that are benign, according to newswise.com. The results explain the apparent "sixth sense" we have for danger. This is the first time that specific regions of the brain have been identified to be involved in the phenomenon. The human brain is able to detect social threats in these regions in a fast, automatic fashion, within just 200 milliseconds. It was previously thought that anxiety could lead to oversensitivity to threat signals. But now researchers are saying it's a good thing, and it goes all the way back to the dinosaurs. Well, practically. Be...