What is Anxiety? Investigating and treating anxiety with optogenetics

What is the evolutionary basis for anxiety? How is that maladaptive transformation from normal anxiety to pathological anxiety defined? In this clip, Peter Attia, M.D. and Karl Deisseroth M.D., Ph.D. discuss anxiety, what it is, and how promising research using optogenetics could lead to new discoveries and treatment options.

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