From the Tulane University media release: Experiencing a frightening event is likely something you’ll never forget. But why does it stay with you when other kinds of occurrences become increasingly difficult to recall with the…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA…
From the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience press release: Has your heart ever started to race at the thought of an upcoming deadline for work? Or has the sight of an unknown object in…
From the Emory Health Sciences press release: People are adept at discerning most of the different emotions that underlie screams, such as anger, frustration, pain, surprise or fear, finds a new study by psychologists at…
From the European Molecular Biology Laboratory press release: Our brains are wired to protect us from threats. For social animals like humans, threats often come from other members of our own species when there is…
From the University of Maryland press release: Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses in the U.S., has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Centers for Disease Control…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Fear and anxiety reflect overlapping brain circuits, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. The findings highlight a need to reevaluate the existing models guiding anxiety research. While “fear”…
From the University of Houston press release: Long after a COVID-19 vaccination is developed and years after the coronavirus death toll is tallied, the impact on mental health will linger, continuing to inflict damage if…
From the University of Helsinki press release: Researchers have identified a new genomic region and anxiety-related candidate genes associated with fearfulness in dogs. Findings support their hypothesis that fearfulness and anxiety are hereditary traits in…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: A woman walking down the street hears a bang. Several moments later she discovers her boyfriend, who had been walking ahead of her, has been shot.…