Sentences with phrase «fear learning»

What's highly disturbing are the many learning practitioners that fear learning about the business implications for their learning efforts.

The authors also suggest a mechanism for this effect on fear learning.

This brings us back to speed again because fear also inhibits problem solving, and dogs that are free from fear learn faster.

Driving is a big responsibility, but that doesn't mean you need to fear learning how to drive.

As a follow - up, they have now tested the effects of antidepressant treatment on extinction learning in rats using auditory fear conditioning, a model of fear learning that involves the amygdala.

Serine racemase and D - serine in the amygdala are dynamically involved in fear learning Balu DT, Presti KT, Huang CCY, Muszynski K, Radzishevsky I, Wolosker H, Guffanti G, Ressler KJ, Coyle JT.

These changes in neural tuning for tones could account for the behavioral generalization that occurred following fear learning.

Neuroimmune signaling in stress - enhanced fear learning, an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Dias and Ressler found that levels of miRNA - 34a are increased in the amygdala after fear learning occurs.

One of the most important things I tell him is this: Don't ever, ever let me become the kind of person who has made up her mind about everything — you know, the kind of person who barks opinions at the TV, refuses to hear people out, and fears learning something new.

«This study not only establishes a novel pathway for fear learning, but also identifies neurons that actively participate in fear conditioning,» says Li.

They were looking for changes in the amygdala, a region of the brain known to regulate fear learning.

The other path was to study fear learning — simple associations that are expressed physiologically through a bodily response such as a change in heart rate, skin conductance, arousal or pupil dilation.

«It potentially could be an ideal preventative treatment since we know it has effects that alter fear learning and memory.»

«Although previous studies demonstrated the existence of double - projecting hippocampal neurons, neuroscientists largely ignored them when studying the role of neural pathways between the hippocampus, amygdala and mPFC in contextual fear learning.»

Impaired fear learning and fear extinction mechanisms play a critical role in the vulnerability and development of mood and anxiety disorders.

Neural correlates of biased fear learning and interaction in an intergroup context.

This is analogous to PTSD in which patients remain afraid and aren't able to successfully inhibit their prior fear learning, even after the context is now safe. [A 2011 paper goes into more detail on this biological aspect of PTSD in a civilian population.]

Following fear learning, some neurons shifted their preference towards the conditioned stimulus and narrowed their tuning, whereas others shifted their preference away from the conditioned stimulus and broadened their tuning.

A lot of our work may be relevant to things like trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder because the neural circuitry of PTSD is built on the circuitry of fear learning and fear regulation.

Women with the same variation also showed stronger connections in activation between the amygdala and the cingulate cortex, two regions of the brain involved in fear learning.

Amygdala transcriptome hints at cellular mechanisms underlying stress - enhanced fear learning, a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder Igor Ponomarev, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Univ of Texas at Austin, USA

A 2012 study using PET scans found that when crows viewed human faces that they associated with threat or care, the birds had increased activity in the amygdala, thalamus and brain stem — areas related to emotional processing and fear learning.

Next, to better understand the role of double - projecting hippocampal neurons in fear learning and memory, Cho and Kim plan to selectively silence these neurons and examine how this manipulation impacts the formation of fear memory for a context associated with an aversive event.

They then performed serial behavioral tests on the mice, including Y - maze test (to assess working memory), rotarod test (motor function and learning), and contextual and cued fear condition test (fear learning and memory).

Recordings from neurons in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in fear learning and implicated in anxiety disorders, showed that individual amygdala neurons responding to the tone changed their preference («tuning») for tones of different pitch following fear learning.

His research with Dr. Kerry Ressler utilizes mouse models of fear learning to better understand the molecular identities of cell populations involved in these learning events.

Dr. Ressler's group uses well - established mouse models to examine different aspects of fear learning and investigate the role of different brain regions, in particular the amygdala, in fear processing.

While the aforementioned studies concentrated on the way sleep affects — and is affected by — the processing and consolidation of fear learning, a much neglected question is whether regular sleep patterns prior to initial fear exposure also play a role.