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This is an AI representation of astrocytes in the amygdala.

Neuroscience

·February 20, 2026·7 min read

Astrocytes Discovered as Architects of Fear Memory

Star-shaped astrocytes have been unmasked as the master controllers behind how your brain learns—and unlearns—fear.

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·February 18, 2023·2 min read

In Vivo Synaptic Dynamics in Various Memory States

Researchers have identified the in-vivo dynamics of synapses that underlie fear memory formation and extinction in the living brain.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 23, 2022·4 min read

How the Brain Stores Remote Fear Memory

Remote fear memories, or memories of trauma formed in the distant past, are stored in the connections between neurons in the prefrontal cortex.

This is a cartoon of a scared looking man running

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·March 24, 2022·4 min read

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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·July 11, 2021·6 min read

Memory Making Involves Extensive DNA Breaking

Brain cells snap DNA in more places and in more cell types than previously realized in order to express genes for learning and memory.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience Psychology

·May 4, 2020·3 min read

Extinguishing fearful memories depends on the flexibility of your DNA

The ability to extinguish fear memories may rely on the flexibility of a person's DNA.

This shows the location of the hippocampus

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·April 1, 2019·4 min read

How the brain fights off fears that return to haunt us

Newly identified 'extinction neurons' in the hippocampus suppress fearful memories when activated, and allow the memories to return when deactivated. The findings may provide new treatment avenues for PTSD, phobias, and anxiety.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·May 15, 2017·6 min read

Study Expands Understanding of How the Brain Encodes Fear Memory

Findings could lead to the development of new treatments to reduce the effects of PTSD, researchers say.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 20, 2017·4 min read

How the Brain Remembers Fearful Experiences

Before a rat avoids a place of which they hold fearful memories, the brain recalls memories of the physical location where the event occurred, researchers report.