Do animals feel empathy?
From a dad hugging his daughter who lost a sports game to a husband trying to alleviate his wife’s distress by listening to her, humans have the capacity to adopt…
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Fear
Moduladores invisibles del miedo: Cómo el microbioma intestinal altera la extinción del miedo
Artículo original: Invisible Modulators of Fear: How the Gut Microbiome Alters Fear Extinction, Mariella Careaga
Traducido por Delaney Ivey
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Aprender a evitar una amenaza, así como saber cuándo algo…
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Invisible Modulators of Fear: How the Gut Microbiome Alters Fear Extinction
Learning to avoid a threat as well as knowing when something is no longer dangerous is crucial for an organism’s survival. Being able to shake off fearful memories after a…
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The Sum of All Fears… Includes Safety?
Identifying safe or dangerous situations are essential for survival. A child may be fearful of crossing a road alone, but he will be completely relaxed while crossing the same road…
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Indiana Jones and the Overactive Amygdala
For Indiana Jones, there was no villain as menacing and no foe as treacherous as the writhing snakes in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Audiences saw their archaeologist champion paralyzed…
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The Road to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Begins at the Intersection of DNA and Childhood Trauma
Shakespeare left out a crucial component for understanding human behavior when he wrote:
it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Our genetic predispositions are…
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The amygdala: a full brain integrator in the face of fear
You are sitting at your computer quietly reading this article when – BOOM! – there is a sharp loud noise behind you! You instinctively stop what you are doing, jump…
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Superhuman Fearlessness? Think Again.
There are a handful of things that make me really uneasy. The mere thought of getting onto a roller coaster, especially the kind that slowly ascends hundreds of feet before…
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