Sentences with phrase «fear memories in»

The researchers began with classical fear conditioning to create fear memories in a group of rats.

Far - reaching neurons in the central amygdala, the location of fear memory in the brain seen here in red (rightl), directly contact neurons in the brainstem, here in green (left).

«This meant that we'd been able to reduce the fear memory without the volunteers ever consciously experiencing the fear memory in the process.»

«When we induced a mild fear memory in the brain, we were able to develop a fast and accurate method of reading it by using AI algorithms,» explains study author Dr. Ben Seymour, of the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department, in a press release.

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Chronic fear and anxiety impacts attention, learning and memory, all of which are important factors in making strategic decisions.

Maybe we find the words out there, in the marketplace, a coffee shop, a stadium, where people aren't dressed for church and can speak their own true words (if we'll listen) about the flesh, their fears, the blessing and curse of family, the craziness, not to mention dreams, fantasies, habits and memories.

The memories rose up out of my mind and threw me backwards decades to sensations of panic I thought I'd forgotten, the ordinary fear almost every woman remembers experiencing in some way.

If I am called to cross it and fear that God has forsaken me there, I need more than ever the memory of all that God has already done for me and my ancestors in the faith.

U.S. low - intensity - conflict strategy in El Salvador utilized generalized terror against civilians in order to sow fear and shape the collective memory of the people.

The memory of wars of religion, and the fear of their revival, make some commentators understandably hesitant to emphasize the religious dimension of the contest in which we are engaged.

The concert is in memory of Dax Locke, who inspired a town to decorate for Christmas two months early, fearing he would not live until December.

Which can make it easy to forget that the original Star Trek series brought the first interracial kiss to broadcast TV, or that the first Star Wars film was steeped in the world's collective memory of the fear of Nazi Germany in WWII.

The congregation is gathered to see if the old memory can be articulated in ways that reconfigure our present social reality of affluence and competence, of fear and brutality, of restlessness and despair.

A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knee, a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer.

Most of us grew up fearing the fat, but good fats are not only beneficial for your body, but they are also absolutely necessary for good health, especially brain health as the type of fat in coconuts has been shown to improve cognitive function and memory.

With Abramovich unwilling to put his hand in his pocket as often as we've come to expect, a fear that a fall from grace may follow is a stark reminder that football fans have a short memory.

If by chance we do win the league this season I fear the tabloid / social media headline writing is on the wall already — «Arsenal win the poorest PL in memory» blah, blah etc..

I have clear memories of fear and loneliness while waiting for sleep alone in my bed at night.

Adult children of divorce tend to have: lower paying jobs and less college than their parents; unstable father - child relationships; a history of vulnerability to drugs and alcohol in adolescence; fears about commitment and divorce; and negative memories of the legal system that forced custody and visitation.

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?

Because I didn't want it to happen again and it was through interviewing her and our prenatal appointments that I was really able to have someone who could listen and understood births, had seen birth trauma and could help me prepare for my next birth by dealing with some of that anxiety and that fear that was absolutely coming in from the memory of the first birth.

My mission is to help parents create happy memories in childbirth by helping them let go of fear and giving them practical tools that help them make healthy choices for themselves during pregnancy and labor.

The drop in dopamine causes anxiety and confusion, now recalling short - term fear memories, and oxytocin causes the ensuing feelings to register deeply in short - term memory, and so on.

There are other factors to Giuliani's indecision, of course: fear that he couldn't maneuver in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's hidebound culture, memories of a disastrous presidential bid, and the burden of his campaign debt.

Using exquisitely precise methods to measure how memories are embedded in brain cells in mice, scientists have shown how fear - based memories prompted by the sound associated with an electric shock can be activated and erased.

Disruptions to the ability of developing brain cells to form branching connections with other cells, using a specific microRNA — miR - 9, was associated with an increase in the strength of fear - related memories in adulthood.

And in this state, patients experience less fear and anxiety attached to their memories — enough to begin talking about and engaging with their trauma under the supervision of a therapist in a safe environment.

Projections to and from the nucleus reunions in the thalamus regulate the specificity of contextual fear memory.

The scientists found changes in the domestic cat's genes that other studies have shown are involved in behaviors such as memory, fear and reward - seeking.

Optogenetic activation of NR neurons in awake behaving mice revealed the role of the NR in fear memory generalization.

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.

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.

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have now for the first time identified a sub-region in the brain that works to form a particular kind of memory: fear - associated with a specific environmental cue or «contextual fear memory.»

Although the traumatic incident happened decades ago in a battlefield half way around the world, his vivid memories continue to produce a state of hyperarousal and intense fear similar to what he experienced that fateful day.

Puthanveettil and his colleagues also discovered that if they inhibited new protein synthesis in the prelimbic region right after fear conditioning took place, those memories did not form.

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.

In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers at Uppsala University have shown how the effect of exposure therapy can be improved by disrupting the recreation of fear - memories in people with arachnophobiIn a new study published in Current Biology, researchers at Uppsala University have shown how the effect of exposure therapy can be improved by disrupting the recreation of fear - memories in people with arachnophobiin Current Biology, researchers at Uppsala University have shown how the effect of exposure therapy can be improved by disrupting the recreation of fear - memories in people with arachnophobiin people with arachnophobia.

Because the memory is made unstable before exposure and re-saved in its weakened form, the fear does not return as easily.

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.

When the scientists stimulated those cells with light, the critters cowered in fear, showing that the long - term memories were already there.

To confuse the issue further, other published research finds that in rats conditioned to fear a shock to the foot, memory formation and subsequent recall, or reconsolidation, are actually separate processes, suggesting that established memories may be malleable and sensitive to disruption.

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.

Researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have learned that the molecule Notch, critical in many processes during embryonic development, is also involved in fear memory formation.

I am exploring what diseases might be lurking in my head; what my memory is like at the age of 51; and how my brain responds to matters as diverse as fear, greed, the movies I like, and even the idea of God.

Anyone who has been through a traumatic event will recognize this scenario immediately — the sudden physical response of fear and its often debilitating persistence in memory.

An overly powerful fear memory, for example, can crystallize into a phobia, in which a relatively safe experience like flying in a plane is inextricably linked to a feeling of extreme danger.

For people who have undergone serious trauma, including war veterans and rape survivors, memories of fear can sometimes play a dominant role in shaping personality, a condition we now call post-traumatic stress disorder.

We have learned that fear plays tricks with our memory and our perception of reality; we have also learned that the fear systems in the brain have their own perceptual channels and their own dedicated circuitry for storing traumatic memories.

Now a study led by Bong - Kiun Kaang at Seoul National University has altered that view: Every time a long - term memory or an associated emotion, like fear, is retrieved, proteins found in the synapses between neurons are degraded, allowing that memory to be updated by incoming information.

Exposure therapy, in which a patient repeatedly relives a painful memory or confronts a fear, may eventually help to reduce or extinguish symptoms — but can be so grueling that people quit before finding relief.