Sentences with phrase «fear circuitry»

Childhood Maltreatment Is Associated With Altered Fear Circuitry and Increased Internalizing Symptoms by Late Adolescence (PDF - 686 KB) Herringa, Birn, Ruttle, Burghy, Stodola, Davidson, & Essex (2013) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (47) Examines the associations between experiences of maltreatment during childhood and functional brain connectivity in 64 adolescents participating in a longitudinal community study.

The amygdala may be looking out for your best interests by preserving a memory of that nighttime car accident, but if the result is an inability to drive after dark, the fear circuitry has gone too far.

New insights into the brain's fear circuitry could yield more effective treatments for anxiety disorders

The researchers also found disorder - specific involvement of the brain's «fear circuitry» in patients with SAD and involvement of the visual recognition network in patients with MDD.

Not exact matches

The idea that brain circuitries devoted to affiliation and social bonds may well be as sophisticated as our fear mechanisms had been percolating for almost a decade.

«The circuitry that underlies the sensation of fear is quite readily activated with a specific stimuli,» Hirsch says.

Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.

We have learned that fear plays tricks with our memory and our perception of reality; we have also learned that the fear systems in the brain have their own perceptual channels and their own dedicated circuitry for storing traumatic memories.

A lot of our work may be relevant to things like trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder because the neural circuitry of PTSD is built on the circuitry of fear learning and fear regulation.

Kenneth M. McCullough, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow investigating cell - type specific contributions to neural circuitries underlying stress related pathologies including chronic stress and fear.

He aims to develop sets of targets for selective pharmacological manipulation of circuitries involved in acquisition of fear and extinction learning.

Fear not: This critic and thumbprint purist is happy to report that the Aardman charm is still intact, and indeed enhanced by the new possibilities offered by state - of - the - art circuitry.

It's tougher than it looks: UE's latest speaker can survive being dropped or drenched, so you can rock out poolside (or as one tester learned, leave it outside in a thunderstorm) without fear of shorting the circuitry.

Faulty circuitry is being blamed for the problem, which is feared could cause burns to the user.