Understanding fear memory formation is critical to developing more effective treatments and preventions for anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Because I didn't want it to happen again and it was through interviewing her and our prenatal appointments that I was really able to have someone who could listen and
understood births, had seen birth trauma and could help me prepare for my next birth by dealing with some of that anxiety and that
fear that was absolutely coming in from the
memory of the first birth.
His current research exploits new methods to
understand how the central amygdala communicates
fear memories to the areas of the brain that are responsible for action.
«Study expands
understanding of how the brain encodes
fear memory: Study could lead to novel therapeutics aimed at reducing pathological
fear in PTSD.»
«This study, done using a mouse model, expands our
understanding of how associative
fear memory for a relevant context is encoded in the brain,» said Cho, the lead author of the study and a member of the UCR School of Medicine's Center for Glial - Neuronal Interactions, «and could inform the development of novel therapeutics to reduce pathological
fear in PTSD.»
By
understanding multiple different components of
fear memory formation and modulation in humans and mice, a number of novel, powerful, and targeted treatment and intervention approaches may become possible.
He
understands how films refer to other films, how they superimpose themselves upon each other and upon their viewers»
memories, and how, through their ubiquity and accessibility, films express and represent the ideals and
fears of their times.