Sentences with phrase «fear center»

Often, a person's biggest fear centers around their inability to maintain proper finances and reliable employment.

The brain's reward and fear centers mature first, making the teen brain more susceptible to anxiety and fear.

Immersing yourself in nature has been associated with less activity in fear centers of the brain, lower levels of stress hormones, steadier heart rate, lower blood pressure, and reduced muscle tension.

It can also decrease activation of fear centers in your brain, reports psychologist Melanie Greenberg in «Ten Science - Based Facts About Love» in Psychology Today.

Beth Carter, a teacher at Cape Fear Center for Inquiry, K - 8 charter school in Wilmington, says she's happy her school is excluded from the contract system.

Students at the Cape Fear Center for Inquiry, a charter school in Wilmington, North Carolina, also collect portfolio material throughout the year.

But advocates» biggest fears center on whether the progress that has been made will be recognized so that the program can continue.

In the grip of the brain's subconscious fear centers, we behave in ways that to our rational mind seem nonsensical or worse.

But although the preconscious fear centers of the brain are not capable of deliberation and reason, they do have their own logic, a simplified suite of responses keyed to the nature of the threat at hand.

Our shop tech Christian Arriero tackled the interior, installing the Lokar shifter and Mustangs To Fear center console, door panels, and headliner and finished wiring the dash to get it ready for the AutoMeter gauges in a Mustangs To Fear trim panel.

Mindfulness - based meditation is able to strengthen executive function in the upper brain region to better «down - regulate» the lower amygdata fear center.

-- David F. Tolin, PhD, ABPP, director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living and author of Face Your Fears

Glenn, from the Cape Fear Center for Inquiry, which will be holding student - led conferences for the second time this year, said she has added checklists of talking points on the table where the students hold their conferences so that the youngsters have some guidance during their presentations.

The anxiety and fear centers of the brain trigger the fight or flight response — and destruction resulting from fear is usually an attempt toimg class flee whatever triggered their fear reaction.

When the stock market goes down and our fear center lights up our reflexive decision is to sell (i.e. stop the bleeding!)

Synchronous mothers showed more activation in an area of the brain known as the nucleus accumbens, which is tied to the reward system, while intrusive mothers showed higher activation in the amygdala, a fear center, the scientists reported in Neuropsychopharmacology (Atzil, Hendler, & Feldman, 2011).

Brain - imaging studies in healthy volunteers show that MDMA quiets the amygdala, an almond - shaped structure deep in the brain that some researchers call a «fear center» due to its central role in triggering strong negative emotions.

Theta wave activity starts in the back of the brain, in it's fear center — the amygdala — and then interacts with brain's memory center — the hippocampus — before traveling to the frontal lobe where thought processing areas are engaged.

In the fMRI research, the reaction to fear - inducing stimuli shows up in the amygdala, an almond - size mass beneath the temporal lobe also known as the brain's fear center.

The sudden movement of the mountain lion had broken the spell of her attentive immobility and gotten her moving, but while the animal was still a fair distance off she had managed to keep her wits and suppress her fear centers» automatic panic reaction.

A team of researchers under the guidance of the University of Bonn Hospital has now been able to demonstrate in a study that the bonding hormone oxytocin inhibits the fear center in the brain and allows fear stimuli to subside more easily.

In the men under the influence of oxytocin, the amygdala, as the fear center in the brain, was overall far less active than in the control group, whereas fear - inhibiting regions were more stimulated.

Plus, oxytocin also calms the reactivity of the amygdala, the fear center of your brain, and strengthens its communication with brain circuits that help you control emotions.

A long hug causes your brain to release oxytocin and calms your fear center — plus it just makes you feel warm and fuzzy.

Multiple studies confirm that whether an individual is immersed in nature, looking at nature, or thinking about nature, there is better recovery from stress, less activity in the amygdala (the fear center in the brain), lower levels of stress hormones like cortisol, and decreases in blood pressure, heart rate, and muscle tension.

The amygdala is our fear center.

The amygdala is the fear center of the brain and it also sends information to the control center of the autonomic nervous system (the locus ceruleus).

The fears centered on the prospect that the Fox News approach to issues like climate change would spill across National Geographic, from the magazine to the TV programming.