Fear – Knowing Neurons

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The Sum of All Fears… Includes Safety?

January 22, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 2013, Amygdala, Anxiety, Fear, Genud-Gabai, Janak, Journal of Neuroscience, Paz, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Safety, Safety Encoding in the Basal Amygdala, Safety Signals in the Primate Amygdala, Sangha

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… Read more

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Indiana Jones and the Overactive Amygdala

May 15, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 7 Comments 2013, Amygdala, Anxiety, Fear, Indiana Jones, Öhman, ophidiophobic, Panic, Phobia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Snake

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… Read more

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The Road to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Begins at the Intersection of DNA and Childhood Trauma

March 1, 2013March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw 8 Comments Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene-childhood trauma interactions, Elisabeth B Binder, Fear, FKBP5, glucocorticoid, Methylation, Nature Neuroscience, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs, Torsten Klengel

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… Read more

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The amygdala: a full brain integrator in the face of fear

February 27, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 17 Comments Adrenalin, Amygdala, Cortex, Fear, Hippocampus, Long Route, Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Sensory, Short Route, Sympathetic Nervous System, Thalamus

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… Read more

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Superhuman Fearlessness? Think Again.

February 25, 2013March 5, 2017 JuanVelasquez 1 Comment 2013, Amygdala, Anxiety, CO2, Fear, Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage, Panic attack

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… Read more