Sentences with phrase «controls fear memory»

Last year, CSHL Associate Professor Bo Li and his colleagues were able to use new genetic techniques to determine the precise neurons in the central amygdala that control fear memory.

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This area processes memory, emotions, the response to stress and is responsible for nurturing, caring, separation anxiety, fear, rage, social bonding and hormone control.

While there's no end of women who go into their second birth wanting something better, hoping for a nicer birth, a birth where they're more in control and a birth that can bring them better memories and healing from a previous experience I have never heard anyone express fear for a second birth, because of fear that it might not be as good but does that make the fear any less real?

Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce the discovery of a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

The researchers analyzed the hippocampi of trained mice, those that were conditioned with a memory of fear, as well as some control mice that were not trained, analyzing them at different intervals after conditioning.

A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior.

Previous imaging studies have found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the brains of people who come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.

The limbic system is a complex area that controls emotions (including fear and anger), motivation, memory, and feelings of pleasure.