Sentences with phrase «fear centers of»

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.

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.

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.

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).

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A fractured political climate takes center stage, where candidates use emotions like fear and anger as «weapons of mass persuasion.»

Goldman signed a lease on around 100,000 square feet of office space in Frankfurt two weeks ago, a move that it admitted was motivated in part by the fear that it could have to relocate hundreds of jobs to other centers in the EU when U.K. - based banks lose their (currently unlimited) access to the European market in March 2019.

Much organized opposition to NAFTA centered on the fear that the abolishment of trade barriers would spur U.S. firms to pack up and move to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor.

According to a new poll from the AP - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 56 percent of Americans largely fear the country's relationship with Russia and China will get worse.

There is hype, hope, fear, and insecurity — and at the center of it all is the self - driving car.

After killing his brother, Attila became the leader of the Hunnic Empire, centered in present - day Hungary, and ended up becoming one of the most feared assailants of the Roman Empire.

After all it was widely feared less than two decades ago that the establishment of the ECB in Frankfurt in 1998 had all but killed London's continued future as the center of European finance.

Local officials, fearing the loss of thousands of jobs and a considerable amount of prestige as a tech center, are scrambling to placate the disgruntled businesses.

Donors Trust grew out of the fear among right - leaning donors that their family foundations might end up in the hands of those who would fund centrist or, even worse, left - of - center causes.

Drawing on the energy of Silicon Valley, one of the world's most dynamic centers for business and innovation, you will learn to try new ideas and not fear failure.

If Chinese authorities indeed intend to ban Bitcoin from the country entirely, Bitcoin mining operations — both mining pools and hash power data centers — will be easy targets to shut down.On the other hand, this is not the first time that fears of China «banning Bitcoin» have been raised.

(Acts 1:24 - 26; I Timothy 5:5) Prayer was the affirmation of confident trust, the centering of attention on faith, not fear, on assets rather than liabilities, on the help of God rather than the troubles of life.

Buried in this center, these sufferings release light that has no fear of darkness.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Moral ideas centered around it, just as they centered around the fear of God in the earlier period.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

As in New York, a proposal for a local Islamic center has become a state - wide campaign issue in recent weeks in Tennessee, where certain Republican candidates in various primaries are trying to outdo each other for the fear vote by denouncing a recently approved expansion of an existing Islamic center in Murfreesboro.

It makes no sense to forget about the World Trade Center that proudly stood there and instead make that whole part of NYC including City Hall and Wall Street a symbol for America's insularity and fear of others who are different.

There's a way of thinking that centers knowledge in comfort of certainty and fear of question that this way of curiously gazing upon the world puts at disease.

Speaking at Cairo's Al Azhar University, the most important center of Islamic learning in the Sunni world, Sisi admonished the assembled scholars to revisit Islamic law, or fiqh, in order to calm the fears of the non-Muslim world.

[ix] Do you see the great tragedy of this self - centered fear?

(2:9) The tree of life, offering deathlessness, stands in the center of man's garden; man's immediate attachment to life implies an (at least) instinctive fear of death, which, becoming conscious, could and does greatly disturb man's tranquility.

Khan raised the issue during a discussion aired Sunday on ABC's «This Week,» which spent this week's broadcast focusing on American Muslims and the fears evoked by the proposed Park51 Islamic center in New York and by mosques in other parts of the United States.

The online video is an effort to fight back against «the rising tide of fear - mongering» resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

We'd all like to think that we live and work and pray from a center that is full of bravery and hope --(and when I think of the times when I have really stepped out in faith to follow Jesus, I think that perhaps we can indeed summon these virtues from time to time)-- but I wonder if to deny the role that fear plays in our art, our faith, and our theology is to deny one of those dark but universal things that, deep down, we all have in common.

The crisis for men centers on fear of aging (and death) coupled with feelings of not having realized the dreams of youth in vocational achievement.

Rather than using fear as a fence to keep us safe, perhaps we can center our friendships on a deep love that keeps us in the center of God's will for those relationships, which means that we will do what we can to protect our relationship, not abandon it.

I realize the fear is that if we don't keep our theological propositions central and firm, if we don't maintain focus on our purpose, vision and mission, if we don't nurture the what the church produces in terms of its persona and style, and we insist that people are the center of the community, then all those things would suffer.

They spread hate and fear every chance they get and lest we forget, these Christian conservatives whining about their «religious freedoms» now, are the SAME people who didn't give a rat's - about the religious rights of Muslims who wanted to build a community center in NY.

They can deputize so that the fear of having all our best center backs in the play is rested (moreover all three are playing currently), as we ease Gibbs into the 3 center back system, does not make us fear taking steps needed.

The introduction of Theo as a center forward revived our attacking fluent, the pace from Theo, Sanchez and the incisive passing from Ozil and Carzola always creates fear and make the opposing teams disorganized and tired.

The media has been reporting extensively on what the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project has dubbed the «Trump Effect»: the fear and anxiety which the President - elect's campaign rhetoric - and his policy pronouncements, especially regarding immigrants and Muslims - appears to be engendering among Latino, Hispanic, African - American, and Muslim children, immigrant children, and children of immigrants, and the bullying, intimidation, slurs, and threats which appear to be increasingly directed at them.

Every working mom whether she works at 7 - 11, a daycare center or in the executive ranks of a corporation needs to feel the same confidence in demanding their rights without fearing retribution.

Because, they asserted, the media, ably aided and abetted by Dr. Ann McKee of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University's CTE Center, along with the PBS series, Frontline, had for years been using the results of autopsies of the brains of a small, self - selected group of former athletes to create a «sensationalized state of fear» about CTE.

But by putting their child at the center of their relationship and making him the focal point, Lori shows how both sets of parents can move forward from fear to family and help their child bring together the different parts of his identity.

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Part of my email reply back to J said, «What I think is interesting about your insight is that clearly if you were working through this material as a class / community, there would be opportunity for someone (leader or class participant) to say, «Oh, hey, you know my cousin feeds her babies on demand and they are truly Christ - centered and have a solid marriage blah blah blah» so that there isn't this FEAR FACTOR of what MIGHT or WILL happen if you don't follow the Ezzo's advice.»

The center was created by prenatal specialist Debra Flashenberg, whose mission is to empower expectant women by educating them about the physiology of the pregnant body, challenging them to reach their limits safely, and dispelling fears based on preconceived limitations.

«Preschoolers have a lot of fears,» says Patricia Henderson Shimm, associate director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development in New York City.

«Health providers and women themselves think that once they have a healthy baby after a loss, all would be fine and that any anxiety, fears, or depression would go away, but that is simply not the case,» says study researcher Emma Robertson Blackmore, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Kenneth D.R. Setchell, PhD, a researcher and professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, believes the fears about soy milk causing developmental problems are unfounded.

Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Leaders of local science and nature centers fear their respective organizations will be among those taking a budget hit.

His fear is the drug treatment center turning into a regional facility, which would negatively impact people in Broome in need of treatment.

The anti-immigrant and «juvenile» rhetoric of the 2016 presidential campaign is driving an increase in bullying and fear among students in the nation's schools, according to a new report by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the left - leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.