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Humans Can Feel Terror Even If They Lack Brain's "Fear Center"

People seem to have more than one way to work themselves into a panic. Contrary to a long-standing assumption of neuroscientists, humans can experience fear even when they lack the brain structure wid...

Humans Can Feel Terror Even If They Lack Brain's 'Fear Center'

People seem to have more than one way to work themselves into a panic. Contrary to a long-standing assumption of neuroscientists, humans can experience fear even when they lack the brain structure wid...

Human brain is divided on fear and panic: Different areas of brain responsible for external, internal threats

Researchers say the human brain has a new, second gatekeeper that registers fear. That region, likely the brainstem, signals fear from internal dangers. The finding could lead to more precise treatmen...

Human brain is divided on fear and panic

(University of Iowa) Researchers at the University of Iowa say the human brain has a new, second gatekeeper that registers fear. That region, likely the brainstem, signals fear from internal dangers....

For combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, 'fear circuitry' in the brain never rests

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Chronic trauma can inflict lasting damage to brain regions associated with fear and anxiety.

With altered brain chemistry, fear is more easily overcome

Researchers at Duke University and the National Institutes of Health have found a way to calm the fears of anxious mice with a drug that alters their brain chemistry. They've also found that human gen...

For PTSD combat vets, ‘fear circuitry’ in the brain never rests

Chronic trauma can inflict lasting damage to brain regions associated with fear and anxiety. Previous imaging studies of people with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, have shown that these......

Experimental Drug And Genetic Difference Both Indicate How People Deal With Fear And Stress

Researchers at Duke University and the National Institutes of Health have found a way to calm the fears of anxious mice with a drug that alters their brain chemistry. They've also found that human gen...

Disruption of reconsolidation erases a fear memory trace in the human amygdala.

Memories become labile when recalled. In humans and rodents alike, reactivated fear memories can be attenuated by disrupting reconsolidation with extinction training. Using functional brain imaging, w...

Fear conditioning occludes late-phase long-term potentiation at thalamic input synapses onto the lateral amygdala in rat brain slices.

Late-phase long-term potentiation (L-LTP) of excitatory synaptic transmission at thalamic input synapses onto the lateral amygdala (T-LA synapses) has been proposed as a cellular substrate for long-te...

Fear conditioning by-proxy: social transmission of fear during memory retrieval.

After fear conditioning (e.g., by pairing a tone to a shock), memory retrieval typically leads to fear expression (e.g., freezing to the tone). Here, we examined the effect of a conditioned rat's fear...

Compensation in the neural circuitry of fear conditioning awakens learning circuits in the bed nuclei of the stria terminalis.

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is thought to be essential for fear learning. However, extensive training can overcome the loss of conditional fear evident following lesions and inactivation of the BLA...

fMRI pattern recognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are characterized by dysregulated neuronal processing of disorder-specific and also unspecific affective stimuli. In the present study, we i...