Anxiety disorders are the world's most common type of mental health condition, impacting the lives of around 360 million people . But what if there was a way to reverse anxiety's effects?

By 'rebalancing' just a few neurons in the amygdala – a part of the brain responsible for decision-making, recall, and managing emotions — researchers from the Spanish National Research Council and the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (CSIC-UMH) in Spain removed anxiety, depression , and social deficits in mice, returning their typical behaviors.

This rebalancing was done via a gene called , which has an important role in brain messaging.

When overexpressed, increases the production of a protein called Gluk4, which triggers anxiety-like behaviors. Mice with more of the GluK4 protein tend to

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