July 13, 2015
Anxiety is HEREDITARY: Brain scans reveal anxious parents are more likely to have nervous and depressed children.
Researchers studied 600 rhesus monkeys [with PET} from a multi-generational family. They measured anxiety-related behavior with structural brain imaging. Scans revealed a brain circuit linked with anxiety is inherited. Monkeys, like humans, can be temperamentally anxious and pass their anxiety-related genes on to the next generation. {read more here}