Researchers from the University of Waterloo have conducted a groundbreaking study examining how anxiety affects walking behavior, particularly in situations that evoke a sense of postural threat. The study, published in the journal Experimental Brain Research, found that while simple walking is unaffected by anxiety, more complex walking tasks in anxiety-inducing situations can reveal significant differences based on an individual’s level of trait anxiety. Walking is generally considered an automatic activity that doesn’t require much thought. However, previous research has shown that cognitiv…