Sentences with phrase «specific fear memories»

Using artificial intelligence and brain scanning technology, neuroscientists were able to override specific fear memories by reconditioning the brain.

The new method, called «Decoded Neurofeedback,» works by reading and identifying fears in the brain by scanning brain activity for complex patterns that resemble specific fear memories.

In a discovery that could have major implications for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Cambridge, Japan and the USA have developed a new technique for removing specific fear memories from the brain.

Seymour says that even when the study subjects were simply resting, the researchers could see short moments of brain activity patterns with features of the specific fear memory.

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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.

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.»

Decrease in this specific ecRNA prevented formation of a long - lasting fear memory, where rats learn to associate mild electrical shocks with a particular place.

This includes training in interventions for cultivating and maintaining a safe and empathic therapeutic relationship; for evoking and processing trauma feelings and memories; for reducing fear, avoidance, and shame; for resolving attachment injuries with specific perpetrators through expressions of anger and sadness; and alternatives to chair - work for clients who are unable or unwilling to engage in these evocative procedures.

Professor Felmingham is recognized for her research examining the neural and biological mechanisms associated with PTSD, with a specific focus on key mechanisms such as emotional memory consolidation, fear conditioning and extinction, emotion regulation and hormonal and genetic influences on these processes.