Sentences with phrase «of fear memories»

Specifically, she has convincingly demonstrated that the emotional expression of fear memories can be neutralized in humans (e.g., Nature Neuroscience, 2009), and which conditions are essential for this to occur (e.g., Science, 2013).

By connecting these subtle patterns of fear memories with a reward, the researchers hoped to gradually and unconsciously override the fears, so the team repeated this procedure over three days.

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).

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.

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.

To do this, you need activity in the [brain's] prefrontal cortex, which signals the cells in the amygdala to inhibit the expression of the fear memory.

We realized that this could be an exciting finding that may account for how contextual information is processed and conveyed between brain areas for the formation of fear memory for the context associated with an aversive event.»

«It is by modulating the activity of the mPFC and basal amygdala that these double - projecting hippocampal neurons contribute to the acquisition and retrieval of fear memory for a context associated with an aversive event.»

«This project has two main aims: we want to gain insight into the brain mechanisms underlying 1) the acquisition and extinction of fear memory and 2) fear related individual differences in humans.

Kindt recently designed an innovative study in which she translated fundamental insights on the plasticity of fear memory to a clinical population (Biological Psychiatry, 2015).

Over the years, she has established a highly successful program of research on the plasticity of fear memory.

By understanding multiple different components of fear memory formation and modulation in humans and mice, a number of novel, powerful, and targeted treatment and intervention approaches may become possible.

Not exact matches

When it came to marketing, we often saw brands capitalizing on older adult's fear of life threatening situations, including a fall, loss of memory or motor skills, or other health related issues like a stroke or heart attack.

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

Students from Stoneman Douglas and other schools delivered speeches, some choked with emotion as they described living with violent memories, survivor's guilt and the ever - present shadow of fear.

All I know is the freedom that enveloped me on the other side destroyed even the memory of the fear that held me back for too long.

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.

The memories of Ruby Ridge and Waco feed their fears, which are not exactly unfounded.

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.

But evangelicals, for whom the intense struggles of the fundamentalist / modernist controversy are still a living and determinative memory, are jittery, fearing that the book might herald a new era of faculty purges and organizational splits — a replay of earlier conflicts, this time rending the evangelical world apart.

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.

Brigette, you missed the point of the quote... it was not about creating memories that sustain loved ones — that is the afterlife story of most religion — the point is to go ahead and live a good life because it is worth living... not because of fearing judgement of one deity or another.

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.

Group loyalties are blends of many emotions, the sense of belonging, the will to power, the memory of past battles and sufferings, fear of others, the insecurities of life, gratitude for heritage and homeland.

Psychoanalysis makes a great deal of uncovering buried memories to see where the fears arose.

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.

Our communities are often organized by bad memories, configurations of mistakes, and seasoned fears.

I am at total peace, I am more happy then I have ever been and I know my time here is extremely precious and the notion of fear, death and god is all but a bad memory.

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.

But you will have such wonderful memories of your travels with baby that the fear of flying with an infant will seem inconsequential.

There have been times I have felt like the whole world was on my shoulders, fearing that every parenting decision I have ever made has been wrong and I would have loved nothing more than for someone to stop my negative train of thought by telling me to think of a beautiful family memory instead.

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

And this memory is what leads me to a common issue that I fear many of us are victims to.

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.

When this happens, our old trauma comes back to life — not as a memory of the past, but as a fear - driven, knee - jerk reaction.

We all have memories of being scared of something as a kid, whether that fear was realistic or not.

Elizabeth began writing an occasional blog as a way to honor Mary's memory and release some of the anger, fear and sadness at Finding Mary's Way.

I had felt so angry over various little bits that had happened, but felt that I couldn't talk to anyone involved about it — with the exception of my doula — for fear or ruining the birth memories for them too.

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.

Riley is able to fall back on core memories of being abided with as she deals with her losses and fears.

I loved how this book brought back wonderful memories of my own pregnancy and all the hopes and fears I had along the way.

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 huge cost of staging the Olympic Games raised widespread concern with many fearing that - with memories of the Millennium Dome and Wembley Stadium as present as the success of the 2002 Commonwealth Games - the funds provided would not be well spent.

A Port Authority cop who helped arrest suicide - bomber wannabe Akayed Ullah last month was invited to the State of the State address, where he said he was filled with anger, fear and memories of 9/11 when he apprehended the terrorist.

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.