From the AFTAU press release: From monsters under the bed to bogeymen in the closet, most children experience nighttime fears at some point in their development. And while most grow out of them without any…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: Recent combat veterans who are diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder have significantly smaller volume in an area of the brain critical for regulating fear…
From the Emory University press release via ScienceDaily: That snake heading towards you may be further away than it appears. Fear can skew our perception of approaching objects, causing us to underestimate the distance of…
From the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology press release via AlphaGalileo: Do you suffer from a phobia? Maybe arachnophobia? Then you know very well that even if you do not feel uneasy when imagining a…
From the Uppsala University press release via EurekAlert!: Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: “Give sorrow words.” —Malcolm in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious? A new UCLA psychology study suggests…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Anxiety disorders affect approximately 40 million American adults each year, and although they are treatable, they often cause significant distress.The excessive fear and dread that accompanies anxiety disorders…
From the CORDIS press release via MedicalXpress: Fear conditioning using sound and taste aversion, as applied to mice, have revealed interesting information on the basis of memory allocation. European ‘Cellular mechanisms underlying formation of the…
From the Macquarie University press release via MedicalXpress: Australia’s leading support, treatment and research facility for anxiety and emotional disorders, the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University, is trialing a new treatment for childhood…
From the Emory University press release by Quinn Eastman: One of the brain’s jobs is to help us figure out what’s important enough to be remembered. Scientists at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University…