News coverage of inherited anxiety study

Earlier this month, a new study from the Department of Psychiatry and the HealthEmotions Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison of an extended family of monkeys provides important insights into how the risk of developing anxiety and depression is passed from parents to children.

A sampling of coverage of the study:

Boston Globe: Study offers insights into the biology of anxiety

Daily Mail: Anxiety is HEREDITARY: Brain scans reveal anxious parents are more likely to have nervous and depressed children

LiveScience: Anxious Brains Are Inherited, Study Finds

The Daily Beast: Brain Scans Suggest Anxiety Is Hereditary