Just as we metaphorically step into another's place to understand their emotions, our brain processes fear vicariously when we witness someone else's distress. While essential for social learning and ...

Mederos and her research team set out to map the neural pathways that allow animals' brains to turn off a fear response. In their study, the team worked with mice because their brain structures ...

Trauma alters brain function, causing fire survivors to struggle with long-term decision-making and emotional stability.

Physicians have long observed a mystifying phenomenon: After a bout of infection or an autoimmune disease flare-up, some ...

A study in people fails to detect differences in the brain’s response to fear or anxiety, long thought to be controlled by different neural circuits. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...

That’s the crux of anxiety brain changes: a stronger fear response and weaker emotional control. But this imbalance caused by anxiety brain changes isn’t irreversible. A growing body of ...

Analyzing the data from the scan, they were able to pinpoint the exact moments when her brain was lit up with fear. "I wanted to understand how we can make a horror film quantifiable," Katz told ...

Administering the drug Osanetant shortly after trauma reduces fear memory in female mice, according to a new study in Brain ...