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The Brain Uses Bodily Signals to Regulate Fear
Study reveals how the brain relies on feedback from the body to regulate fear response. When a mouse's body freezes in response to fear, its heart rate slows, and this leads to attenuated insular...
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Haunted-House Experience Scares up Interesting Insights on the Body’s...
The presence of friends increases arousal when people are exposed to scary stimuli, researchers report. Additionally, the stronger the response to the initial stimuli, the more fear response increases...
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Discovery of Novel Brain Fear Mechanisms Offers Target for Anxiety-Reducing...
Researchers have identified a new target in the brain that underpins the freezing response associated with anxiety and fear. The findings could provide a new drug target for anxiety-related disorders.
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How Do Social Interactions Conjure Up Memories and Emotional Responses in the...
Researchers reveal how memories and fear responses can be transmitted through social interactions.
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On the Brink of Giving Up? Mindfulness Meditation Can Help in Internal Conflicts
Mindful meditation may help people cope when faced with action crises, researchers say.
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Brand-New Brain Pathway to Fear Discovered
The sensory cortex, not the amygdala, is responsible for storing fear memories from past experiences, a new study reports.
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Where the Mind Is Without Fear
KNT-127, a chemically synthesized compound, helps suppress fear memories associated with PTSD, researchers report.
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What Makes Some More Afraid of Change Than Others?
Differences in gene expression in key brain areas may account for the reason some are less fearful of change than others.
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Why the Memory of Fear Is Seared Into Our Brains
Norepinephrine facilitates fear processing by stimulating a population of inhibitory neurons in the amygdala, generating repetitive bursting patterns of electrical activity. This activity changes the...
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Understanding and Reframing the Fear of Rejection
At some point, we all face social rejection. Researchers say that while rejection affects us all differently, it's how respond to the setback that determines how rejection affects us.
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Reframe the Pain: Reducing Needle Anxiety in Children
A child's vaccination or needle fear can be reduced if the nurse spends additional time supporting children during the vaccination process.
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How the Brain Gathers Threat Cues and Turns Them Into Fear
CGRP neurons found in subregions of the thalamus and brainstem relay multisensory threat information to the amygdala. These neural circuits are essential for the formation of aversive memories, a new...
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Psychedelics May Lessen Fear of Death and Dying, Similar to Feelings Reported...
Both those who experienced a natural near-death experience and those who had a near-death experience while taking psychedelics report less fear of death and a lasting, spiritual positive experience.
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Jumping Gene Found to Be Strongly Linked to Depression, Fear, and Anxiety
The TOB gene plays a significant role in reducing depression, anxiety, and fear in mouse models. The findings could have positive implications for developing new treatments for disorders associated...
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How Fear Memories Get Stuck in Some Brains
Down-regulation of the PRDM2 protein increases the consolidation of fear-related memories in the brain.
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The More Specifics People Have On Potential Dangers, the Less Fearful They...
Detailed knowledge of probabilities can make dangerous risks seem far less risky, a new study reports.
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Where Do Fears Come From?
Exposure therapy for fears and phobias may only have a 50% success rate because fear memories outlast competing safety memories learned from therapy. Researchers investigate the genesis of fear...
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How Early Fears Play a Role in Future Anxiety and Depression
Behavioral inhibition at 12 to 24 months of age was associated with an increased risk of developing depression, more so than anxiety, during later life. This is especially true for inhibited children...
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Evening People Show Enhanced Fear Acquisition, Which May Increase the Risk to...
The vulnerability of those with evening chronotypes to anxiety, PTSD, and related disorders may be mediated by altered fear acquisition.
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Fearlessness Can Be Learned
Mice lacking a specific serotonin receptor unlearn fear faster than those with the receptor. The findings open the door to the development of new treatments for PTSD and other disorders associated with...
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