How does the brain choose between fight, flight, or freeze? Tulane University scientists have discovered the neural pathways ...

Neuroscientist Sjoerd Meijer of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has shown for the first time that targeted ...

Fear is a normal and important human feeling that is capable of making us perceive danger and react fast to any threat. The fear of heights, spiders, or even speaking in front of an audience are ...

Fear memory encoding, the process responsible for persistent reactions to trauma-associated cues, is influenced by a sparse but potent population of inhibitory cells called parvalbumin-interneurons ...

Illustration of the basolateral amygdala (blue), hippocampus (yellow), and perirhinal cortex (pink) and electrical signals from each region during a recognition test trial. Source: Cory Inman, Emory ...

Researchers have identified a narrow recovery period in the brain, roughly one hour after a stress event, during which a ...

Fear response to traumatic or threatening situations helps us evade or escape danger. At the same time fear response is learned in the form of association between stimulus or situation and the ...

Researchers have found that lifelong physical activity may moderate the structural brain changes linked to adverse childhood ...

Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...