Can You Unlearn Anxiety? with Judson Brewer

Week 2 of Mental Health Awareness month: Anxiety is close to everyone’s experience, either because you’ve had it or someone close to you has. Does your brain accidentally teach itself to stay anxious by looping on the same fears? Is anxiety helping you perform better, or does it make everything harder? Is it possible to unlearn worry the same way you learned it? Join Eagleman with Dr. Jud Nelson, who suffered with anxiety as a young man… and then became a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies anxiety and developed a very different approach to its treatment.

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Judson Brewer. Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind.

Judson Brewer. The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits.

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