How to overcome one’s fears, anxieties and phobias? It’s a challenge that many of us give a lot of thought and attention to over the course of our lives and with varying degrees of success.  One of the most effective treatments for fear and anxiety is called exposure therapy.

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Listen, no one likes to go to the dentist. But while an appointment might feel like it takes forever, it turns out that visiting the dentist can actually take years off your life.

"The researchers found that those diagnosed with meningiomas were more than twice as likely as the comparison group to report ever having had bitewing images taken," writes Seaman. "And regardless of the age when the bitewings were taken, those who had them yearly or more frequently were at between 40 percent and 90 percent higher risk at all ages to be diagnosed with a brain tumor."

A new wave of scientific research is raising an old-fashioned question: Are men's and women's brains different after all?

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A new study in Biological Psychiatry found that even in healthy people, stressful events can make the parts of the brain that are responsible for regulating your emotions, self-control and metabolism shrink.

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