From the Association for Psychological Science press release via HealthCanal: Wide-eyed expressions that typically signal fear may enlarge our visual field and mutually enhance others’ ability to locate threats, according to new research published in…
From the British Neuroscience Association press release via AlphaGalileo: New research has shown that the way our minds react to and process emotions such as fear can vary according to what is happening in other…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: Fear of public speaking tops death and spiders as the nation’s number one phobia. But new research shows that learning to rethink the way we view…
From the University of North Carolina School of Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: New research from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for the first time explains exactly how two brain regions interact…
From the Mayo Clinic press release via MedicalXpress: Children who avoid situations they find scary are likely to have anxiety a Mayo Clinic study of more than 800 children ages 7 to 18 found. The…
From the National University of Ireland, Galway press release via AlphaGalileo: New findings about how the brain functions to suppress pain have been published in the leading journal in the field Pain, by National University…
From the University of Amsterdam press release via MedicalXpress: Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered that changes in patterns of brain activity during fearful experiences predict whether a long-term fear memory is…
From the University of Florida press release via MedicalXpress: Driving through his hometown, a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder may see roadside debris and feel afraid, believing it to be a bomb. He’s ignoring…
From the University of Iowa press release by John Riehl via ScienceDaily: When doctors at the University of Iowa prepared a patient to inhale a panic-inducing dose of carbon dioxide, she was fearless. But within…
From the Brown University press release via ScienceDaily: It’s no secret that fear is a mechanism often used in political campaigns to steer public opinion on hot-button issues like immigration and war. But not everyone…