Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Friday, January 26, 2024

Tolerance of uncertainly as a key to resilience.

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As a followup to the previous post on The Neurobiology of Stress I want to point to Maggie Jackson's opinion piece in the NYTimes title...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Does a "P-factor" underlie core attributes of mental health maladies?

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I want to point to an open source "Core Concepts" article in PNAS by David Adam that presents "the views of some psychiatris...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Two promising post-traumatic stress disorder treatments

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I want to pass on references to two new approaches to relieving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nuwer describes a n...
Friday, January 22, 2021

The paradox of pleasurable fear.

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A study by Anderson et al. finds an inverted U-shaped relationship between fear and enjoyment, consistent with the theory that the pursuit ...
Friday, November 06, 2020

Oxytocin can increase or decrease anxiety-related behaviors.

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Duque-Wilckens et al. report experiments in mice showing that oxytocin, usually regarding as reducing anxious behaviors, enables stress-ind...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Training internal resilience

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I want to point to an interesting article by Eva Holland on relieving trauma, which is very relevant to the potential mental0health fallout...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Feeling bad is not bad.

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MindBlog is passing on the link to each of Arthur Brooks' biweekly articles in his series "How to Build a Life". This latest...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Anxiolytic actions of oxytocin, unlike those of benzodiazepines, involve brain regions outside the amygdala

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From Kreuder et al .: Significance A potential new target for anxiolytic drug development is the oxytocin (OXT) neuropeptide system. An em...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

One mechanism of a basic life choice - to ‘go for it’ or to ‘scram’

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Miller et al . use a variety of methods to find subpopulations of dopamine sensitive neurons in the amygdala of mice, projecting to differen...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Social threat learning transfers to our decision making.

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Lindström et al. (open source) demonstrate that threat associations acquired both by social observation (e.g., through video) and by instru...
Thursday, March 07, 2019

Control of OCD behavior by amygdala to prefrontal input.

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Sun et al. find a brain circuit in mice regulating OCD behavior that in humans might be susceptible to non drug manipulations such as trans...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Details of how a fear response is unlearned.

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Learning requires the formation of new nerve connections. When that learning is extinguished are those connections inhibited or lost? Wan L...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Brain-heart dialogue shows how racism hijacks perception

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Tsakiris does a nice summary of his work that shows a biological basis for why you’re more than twice as likely as a white person to be una...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Reducing future fears by suppressing episodic simulation in the brain.

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Benoit et al. offer some findings relevant to understanding the heightened anxiety many are feeling in the Age of Trump. An edited summary...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Mapping discrete and dimensional emotions onto the brain.

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Here I am passing on the abstract and one summary figure from a useful recent review article by Stephan Hamann: A longstanding controvers...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Half a heartbeat can chill out our response to threat.

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Whether we are breathing in or breathing out can have a pronounced effect on our threat detection threshold. Meditation regimes and stress p...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Childhood maltreatment reduces brain volume.

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Shortly after putting up this post on maternal nurturing correlating with larger hippocampal volumes, I can across the flip side of the sto...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

An App for your anxiety...

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Continuing in the thread of yesterdays post about a science App, I should mention the blip of interest (and controversy) over the putative ...