Researchers implicate neurons within the dorsolateral septum in the regulation of fearful behaviors in mice.
Researchers report popular benzodiazepine sleep medications, such as Ambien and Halcion, caused test subjects to sleep through fire alarm drills. However, a newly developed class of sleeping medications perverse the ability to wake in response to threat.
Researchers report our brain is on high alert while listening to voices, finding we respond much faster to vocal aggression than normal or happy voices. The reason, researchers say, could be that our attention is more focused on threatening voices to help us recognize the location of a potential threat.
Researchers look at what happens in the brain when we make snap decisions under stress.
According to a new PNAS study, two areas of the brain are responsible for fear processing.
Researchers report people who experienced emotional abuse and neglect as children exhibited increased amygdala activity in anticipation of a mild electrical shock. The findings suggest early life stress could have an impact on the perception of distant threat.
A new study reports being shown images of others being cared for and loved reduces the brain's response to threat.
