Sentences with phrase «of fearful responses»

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The terror this last law struck into the hearts of inhabitants of the empire is demonstrated by an incident in the Acts of Peter in which a shattered imperial statue, broken in the course of a vigorous exorcism undertaken by Peter, was miraculously healed in response to the pleas of a terrified Christian, fearful of the consequences of leaving it in pieces.

God can surely communicate to man the deepest truths, but ultimately, the fullness of the Godhead must communicate within mankind's limited vocabulary and comprehension — or there will only be just an awe - struck and fearful listener cowering in a corner... and no deeper comprehension or response.

The response of faith in Jesus demands the asceticism of attentiveness, for «it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God» (Heb.

When a pattern of response is generalized like this it most likely indicates that the child's brain has now been wired so that the child becomes more hesitant and fearful of various things they are exposed to in their environment.

In response, many product manufacturers, fearful of losing customers, are slapping the «natural» label on foods that are anything but.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

However, numerous children who showed muted responses to fearful cues never fell foul of the law, Raine says.

«If the effects of alcohol on memories to fearful responses are similar in humans to what we observe in mice, then it seems that our work helps us better understand how traumatic memories form and how to target better therapies for people in therapy for PTSD.

The group performed non-invasive brain imaging in the first 80 college - aged participants of the DNS, showing them pictures of angry or fearful faces and watching the responses of a deep brain region called the amygdala, which helps shape our behavioral and biological responses to threat and stress.

In line with prior research, the NIH team had found that fearful or angry faces triggered a strong response from the amygdala, a region of the brain that helps us recognize threats.

So he and colleague Ahmad Hariri divided volunteers into two groups — one with the «short» variant and one without — and compared (using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which generates snapshots of the brain in action) how their amygdala responses differed when they were shown pictures of fearful faces, a common method for triggering an amygdala response.

This hypothesis receives support from evidence that showing neurotic subjects images of fearful faces triggers an exaggerated response in the amygdala, a brain region that has been linked to fearful emotion.

In contrast, when we feel timid, fearful or don't want to be the center of attention, our withdrawal response is triggered.

A film designed to be the fiery response to critics of his combative style is his most pandering (in the first section Solondz uses a red square to obscure a violent (but consensual) sex act, a flaccid pre-emptive strike against the MPAA) and, in the end, his most fearful and apologetic.

Surrey: These responses will (and should) be all about Domino, so let me give a quick shout - out to Peter, the wholesome normal human man who put on sunscreen before jumping out of a plane because he's more fearful of melanoma than Cable.

Learn what Tom Putnam has to say about the current environment in response to investors who may be tempted to try to time the market: Although we are opportunistic when mainstream investors are fearful and there is a downturn, I think it is helpful to reiterate to you our mantra of «stay the course.»

Eventually investors will reach a point though where they seek out riskier investments / real assets / capital gains, because they've a) regained their confidence, b) become so desperate in response to continued yield compression, and / or c) become sufficiently fearful of actual / anticipated inflation.

Trying to force the behavior could have the opposite response and make your cat fearful of the area.

Your cat will associate these types of responses from you with the behavior she is displaying at the time, and it can cause escalation of the fearful behavior.

Starting from this moment you will need to enhance the dog's responses in an orderly manner, and since training consists of a determined communication system between man and dog, there must exist a certain level of comprehension so that the dog does not carry out what he has been taught in a fearful or distrustful way.

And while fear responses in and of themselves don't vary between fearful social cats and fearful feral cats, cats that were previously social with people show a reduction in signs of fear over time.

This stress response can also be triggered by separation anxiety, (when your dog is apart from you for long periods) or being fearful of loud noises.

Fear of noises is a normal adaptive response to a real threat, resulting in behavioral and physiological survival responses that drive the dog to seek shelter or otherwise avoid the imminent danger.4 However, when the fearful response to noise is persistent, exaggerated in intensity and duration and results in what appears to be an anxiety attack, this is not normal.

If you are looking to enroll your dog into a training class to «socialize» him to be less fearful, less anxious, or friendlier to other dogs or people, please be aware that he has a nearly or fully developed personality and at this point we need to take on an approach of intervention, teaching better behaviors, and perhaps modifying behaviors and emotional responses.

Regardless of the age or background of the cat you've adopted, it's important to remember that cats are territorial and must be introduced to other animals gradually to help prevent fearful or aggressive responses.

In order to properly alleviate your dog's fearful response to other dogs, you will need to gradually desensitize him to the presence and movement of other dogs and help him develop a positive emotional response to other dogs.

When Minnie, an 8 - year - old female shepherd / foxhound mix, presented to the Behavior Service at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, her fearful response to noises and unfamiliar surroundings was so severe she refused to get out of the car.

But even if everyone in the world used silent fireworks, there are plenty of other loud noises that cause anxious, fearful, and phobic responses in dogs.

A well - drafted plan carried out by a knowledgeable trainer or well - coached dog owner is a powerful tool in the prevention of fears, but also to change an already - fearful dog's emotional response to an item or situation.

Puppies who are sick with parvovirus disease do survive, but not without aggressive medical care that, in and of itself, can negatively impact socialization (some pups become timid and fearful in response to all of the necessary poking and prodding).

For example, thunder is accompanied by changes in barometric pressure, lightning and rain, and your dog's fearful response may be to the combination of these things and not just the thunder.

The fearful behaviors in neutered dogs included: responses to loud noises, when first exposed to unfamiliar situations, when approached directly by an unfamiliar child, when barked at, or growled at, by an unfamiliar dog, or even when approached by another dog of similar or larger size, when encountering strange or unfamiliar objects on or near the sidewalk, when encountering windblown objects, when examined by a veterinarian, or when having their nails clipped.

Abnormal dogs watch (or stare at) what they are afraid of quite intently; unfortunately the strange dog may inadvertently make eye contact with the fearful dog which then appears to be perceived to be a threat which then may trigger the fear response.

The German government announced today that it will shut down seven of the country's seventeen nuclear power plants for an indefinite period, a decision taken in response to widespread protests and a German public increasingly fearful of nuclear power after a nuclear emergency in Japan.

Asked if he is fearful about the impact of climate change, Tønnes «Kaka» Berthelsen's response is typical of many Greenlanders.

Young Children with Autism Show Atypical Brain Responses to Fearful versus Neutral Facial Expressions of Emotion.

Adults who had been categorized as behaviorally inhibited at the age of 2 years exhibited a higher amygdala activation in response to unknown vs familiar faces16 compared with adults who were uninhibited as children, consistent with the notion that novel or ambiguous environmental stimuli of potential biological relevance activate the amygdala.17 Turning to genes that can influence the neurobiological bases of the processing of emotions, 2 common alleles, the short (S) and the long (L), in a variable repeat sequence of the serotonin transporter (5 - HTT) promoter polymorphism (5 - HTTLPR) on human chromosome 17q11 have been differently associated with greater amygdala activity in response to angry or fearful faces18 in healthy adults.

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder

Neural responses to fearful eyes in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous — unemotional traits.

Animal research also makes clear that withdrawing parental behaviours that fail to soothe the infant's fearful arousal are associated with enduring hyper - arousal of the stress response system.12, 13 Therefore, Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman and Atwood suggest that both fearful affect generated by the parent and fearful affect generated from other sources in the context of parental emotional unavailability may contribute to infant disorganization.14, 15 A spectrum of parental behaviours has been shown by meta - analysis to be associated with infant disorganization.

Analysing the responses to the ECR - R scale revealed that 30.4 percent of participants had a secure attachment style, 16.3 percent of participants had an avoidant - dismissing attachment style, 35.2 percent had an avoidant - fearful attachment style, and 18.1 percent had an anxious - preoccupied attachment style (see Figure 2).

Reduced amygdala responses to fearful facial expressions have been reported in adolescents with CD or conduct problems, and elevated CU traits compared to typically - developing controls (Jones et al. 2009; Marsh et al. 2008), whereas increased amygdala responses to fearful faces have been demonstrated in children with conduct problems and low levels of CU traits compared with their high CU traits counterparts (Viding et al. 2012).