From the Endocrine Society press release: Traumatic brain injuries affect the body’s stress axis differently in female and male mice, according to research presented at the Endocrine Society’s 99th annual meeting, ENDO 2017, in Orlando,…
From the Universität Basel press release: Scientists at the University of Basel have shown that LSD reduces activity in the region of the brain related to the handling of negative emotions like fear. The results,…
From the Society for Neuroscience media release: Assessing whether a fluffy bunny or a giant spider poses a threat to our safety happens automatically. New research suggests the same brain areas may be involved in both…
From the UPenn press release via MedicalXpress: Anyone who’s ever heard a Beethoven sonata or a Beatles song knows how powerfully sound can affect our emotions. But it can work the other way as well…
From the Journal of Visualized Experiments press release via MedicalXpress: Fear is one of the most primal feelings known to man and beast. As we develop in society and learn, fear is hard coded into…
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…