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Sep 02, 2010
WCTV News
Why does anxiety target women more? FSU researcher awarded $1.8M to find out
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Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj was recently awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety. Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety.