True freedom, happiness and love can only be found when you shed the pavlovian
fear conditioned response of indoctrinated religion.
Importantly, at both time points examined, there were no differences in locomotor activity and / or pain sensitivity between rat groups (Additional file6: Figure S5), suggesting that the reduced
fear conditioning responses (freezing behavior) in transgenic rats were not influenced by any differences in sensitivity to pain or by increased locomotion.
Not exact matches
Conditioned by
fear, they know the slightest noise will provoke a violent
response - and almost certain death.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of therapy which addresses beliefs caused by trauma and helps to counter
conditioned -
fear responses related to the traumatic experience.
The Ferber method is NOT appropriate for kids who have a
conditioned fear of being left alone in their beds or who have a
conditioned vomiting
response
The amygdala has been demonstrated to be critical in the acquisition, storage and expression of
conditioned fear responses.
Demonstrating the expected
conditioned response, the mice would then freeze in
fear whenever they heard the tone — even though shocks were now withheld.
After only one exposure to the shock and the tone, the amnesiac patient acquired a
conditioned fear response to shaking hands with her doctor.
Conditioned fear is easy: Fruit flies, marine snails, even lizards can be trained to display defensive behavior in
response to threatening stimuli, along the lines of the tone and shock experiments.
Joseph LeDoux, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, was able to block the process of encoding a
conditioned fear response in rats by injecting a drug, anisomycin, into their brains.
Following training, the primates showed
fear responses, not only to the
conditioned stimulus, but to tones similar in pitch to the
conditioned stimulus as well.
Following contextual
fear conditioning, we then tested
fear memory retrieval in
response to an auditory cue, within a different environment.
The following day (48 hs after auditory
conditioning), cued
fear responses were examined in a different arena (c, f).
No differences in freezing
responses between non-transgenic and transgenic rats were detected during contextual
fear conditioning testing at this early stage (F2, 21 = 1.043; p > 0.05)(Figure 6b).
The read - out that is measured in contextual and cued
fear conditioning is a freezing
response that occurs following the pairing of an unconditioned stimulus (US), such as a foot shock, with a
conditioned stimulus (CS), such as a particular context or cue (tone)[15 — 17].
(C) On Day 2 of the
fear conditioning assay the amount of time freezing in
response to the environment is measured as contextual memory.
The readout that is measured in contextual and cued
fear conditioning is a freezing
response that occurs following the pairing of an unconditioned stimulus such as a foot shock, with a
conditioned stimulus such as a particular context or cue (tone).
Fear extinction involves creating a conditioned response that counters the conditioned fear respo
Fear extinction involves creating a
conditioned response that counters the
conditioned fear respo
fear response.
«Given the amygdala's prominent role in
fear conditioning, we were indeed expecting stronger
responses to hazardous animals such as spiders or snakes, but it turned out that all kinds of animals, dangerous and cute, elicit
responses in the amygdala,» he said.
When a
conditioned emotional
response takes place, we are basically altering previous connections between neurons and shifting a
fear response into a joyful, pleasurable
response.
However, vital sign measurements are not always enough to recognize pain from stress, anxiety,
fear, or from physical
responses to medical
conditions like anemia.
Effective treatment for these issues is based on addressing the dog's
fear or discomfort through classical
conditioning, and / or using reward - based training to teach a different behavioral
response to the trigger.
For dogs that are
fear aggressive or overtly aggressive towards other dogs I use positive reinforcement to create a
conditioned response to seeing another dog.
Classical
conditioning is also an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to «fixing» behavior problems rooted in anxiety, frustration, or
fear; if we can change the physiologic
response to the stimulus, then we should eliminate the animal's undesirable behavior.
The textural fascination of its steel surface, transitioning between the smooth, attenuated areas of the vertical elements and the molten knots of welding at the joints and abdomen, beckons tactile engagement, while our
fear of the spider — itself a cocktail of innate, primal drives and cultural
conditioning — inevitably flares up in
response to its eight - legged form.
This finding is interesting, in that attachment figures are likely to increase μ - opioid levels and thus may serve as prepared safety stimuli — reducing
conditioned fear responses and enhancing learned safety — through μ - opioid — related processes.
In sum, the VMPFC has been shown to be more active in
response to
conditions that signify relative safety and to correlate negatively with
fear, stress, and pain
responses.
The implication of these findings is that μ - opioids are involved in reducing
conditioned fear responses and enhancing
fear extinction or learned safety.
Enhanced hippocampal BDNF / TrKB signaling in
response to
fear conditioning in an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder
Furthermore, low levels of serotonin in the basolateral amygdala are related to reductions in the
conditioned fear response — a
response which is reliably impaired in adults with high levels of psychopathic personality (CU traits)[16], [17].
On the automatic nature of phobic
fear:
Conditioned electrodermal
responses to masked
fear - relevant stimuli
Furthermore, people with high levels of CU traits (psychopathic personality) have been shown to have three specific cognitive and emotional deficits; a poor
conditioned fear response, reduced ability to recognise
fear, and deficits in stimulus - reinforcement tasks (see Moul et al. [12] for a review).