Especially if subjected to physical or verbal abuse in the past, your new dog may
show fearful responses.
Not exact matches
However, numerous children who
showed muted
responses to
fearful cues never fell foul of the law, Raine says.
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.
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.
On the other hand, if you
show hostility or rudeness to a dog, then that seems unsociable and you can trigger a
fearful or aggressive
response.
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.
Young Children with Autism
Show Atypical Brain
Responses to
Fearful versus Neutral Facial Expressions of Emotion.
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.
Young children with autism
show atypical brain
responses to
fearful versus neutral facial expressions