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          FeaturedPsychology
          ·November 7, 2014·2 min read

          Response to Threat Reduced by Reminders of Affection

          A new study reports being shown images of others being cared for and loved reduces the brain's response to threat.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·September 11, 2017·3 min read

          Childhood Maltreatment May Change Brain’s Response to Threat

          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.
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          ·March 6, 2018·5 min read

          Brain Has Separate ‘Fear Circuits’ for Dealing with Immediate and Distant Threats

          According to a new PNAS study, two areas of the brain are responsible for fear processing.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·September 11, 2018·5 min read

          How Do We Make Snap Decisions?

          Researchers look at what happens in the brain when we make snap decisions under stress.
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          Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·December 7, 2018·4 min read

          Being Yelled At: Our Brain on Alert in a Flash

          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.
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          ·January 11, 2019·5 min read

          Sleeping Though a Fire Alarm: Benzodiazepines Prevent Ability to Wake in Response to Threat

          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.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·February 11, 2019·5 min read

          Brain Cells that Modulate Behavioral Response to Threats Identified

          Researchers implicate neurons within the dorsolateral septum in the regulation of fearful behaviors in mice.
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