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·February 19, 2019·5 min read

Extinguishing Fear Memories Relies On An Unusual Change to DNA

Researchers report fear extinction memories form as a result of an adenosine modification, which help to increase the activity of specific genes.

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·May 25, 2017·4 min read

How Fear Can Develop Out of Others’ Traumas

The endogenous opioid system may be responsible for learned fear based on the trauma of others, researchers report.

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·October 19, 2020·6 min read

Fear and Anxiety Share Same Bases in Brain

Fear and anxiety share overlapping neural circuits. The findings contradict the popular belief that anxiety and fear are distinct emotions with different triggers and segregated brain circuits.

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·October 16, 2021·4 min read

Why Do We Wake Around 3am and Dwell On Our Fears and Shortcomings?

Researchers investigate why many of us wake in the middle of the night and dwell on our fears.

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·October 14, 2016·3 min read

How Neuroscience Could Benefit From the Learning and Performance of Music

A new study reports learning and performing music could be of benefit to those who have experienced traumatic events.

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·January 16, 2015·2 min read

Implanting Fear

Researchers report noradrenaline and Hebbian plasticity work in tandem to form memories of fearful events.

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·January 19, 2021·4 min read

Childhood Neglect Leaves Generational Imprint

Infant children whose mothers experienced neglect when they were young showed altered brain circuitry in areas associated with anxiety and fear response.

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·October 23, 2017·4 min read

Researchers Revise Our Knowledge of How the Brain Learns to Fear

Researchers report conventional understanding of fear learning may be incorrect. Contrary to popular thought, the central amygdala, and not the lateral amygdala may be the seat of aversive learning.

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·January 24, 2020·3 min read

Horror movies manipulate brain activity expertly to enhance excitement

Neuroimaging reveals areas of the brain associated with visual and auditory processing are more active when anxiety slowly increases during horror movies. After a shocking scene, brain areas associated with emotional processing, threat evaluation, and decision making increase in activity.

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·May 4, 2021·5 min read

The Sensitive Brain at Rest

A new study sheds light on how highly sensitive people process information. After experiencing something emotionally evocative, brain activity displayed a depth of processing while at rest. Depth of processing is a key feature of high emotional sensitivity.

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·September 19, 2020·6 min read

How Fear Persists in the Mouse Brain

When a mouse senses a threat, neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus become activated and remain active for ten seconds after the threat is removed. Fear responses could be induced by artificially stimulating these neurons. Artificially silencing the neurons reduced fear behavior.