Tag: fear

Escaping Fear: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat

27/06/2018

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain that is necessary for unlearning fear....

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American Fears

War? Famine? A Second Term of Trump? America’s Top Ten Fears

12/10/2017

Chapman University releases 4th annual Survey of American Fears ...

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They Might Be Dragons! Inventing Trauma for Population Control

28/04/2017

State manufactured fear is a phantom which can never be fought. But it can be ignored....

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fear management

Scary Moment? Set Brain to ‘BRAVE’ for Fear Management

14/04/2017

Weakening communication between two parts of the brain in mice reduced their fear levels...

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tarantula, phobia

Reducing Phobia Works Best With Brief Exposure (Unless You’re Frightened of Exposed Briefs)

09/02/2017

Less is more: Exposure to stimuli for overcoming phobia ...

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fear eyes

Phobic? Learn Something New For Fear Management

24/07/2015

It is not only important to break the links between environmental cues and fear, but also to substitute new learning about safety for further fear management....

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scream diagram by Luc Arnal

Why Do You Notice Human Screams, But Not Jetplanes?

17/07/2015

Screaming really works," Poeppel says. "It is one of the earliest sounds that everyone makes...

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