These blood-pressure-lowering drugs can calm the rapid heartbeat, shaky voice and trembling hands that can wreck a performance, work presentation or wedding toast.

Performance anxiety refers to the fear or worry about one's ability to perform a task adequately, leading to emotional distress and physical symptoms. Common examples include test anxiety, fear of ...

Anxiety is part of the body’s built-in alarm system, alerting us to danger in the surrounding environment, according to ...

Performance anxiety presents as unusually strong worry or fear around activities that involve accomplishment. It can be experienced in any number of areas that range from public speaking to athletic ...

When Vanessa Walilko was in her late 20s, she got strep throat—and then she got it again and again. Because she’s allergic to strep bacteria, she says her illness turned into scarlet fever several ...

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a multifaceted phenomenon that affects musicians across age groups and genres. It is characterised by a complex interplay of cognitive, emotional and physiological ...

A study in mice has shown that exercise helped reduce depressive and anxiety-like symptoms induced by a typical Western diet ...