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Surprisingly, if you are anxious and inhibited, you might be walking in a leftward trajectory. Scientists find that those who are undergoing these emotions will have more activity in the right side of their brain, according to scienceworldreport.

It is understood that there is an inclination among people to give attention "unequally" across space. To find out more about this tendency, scientists blindfolded volunteers and told them to walk in a straight line across a room towards a target they had seen earlier.

The blindfolded who had inhibition or anxiety tended to walk to the left. Hence, it gives a clue that the brain's double hemispheres have different motivational systems. The right side is related to inhibition and the left side to approach.

For the first time, then, scientists seem to be showing some link between inhibition and activation in the brain's right section. This might be having implications for treating "unilateral neglect due to a lack of awareness of one side of space.

Now these findings could help you if you suffer from "right-sided neglect", also helping to reduce anxiety.

The study is published in the journal Cognition.