"The amygdala is central to emotion processing in the brain, and is known to contribute to fear and anxiety," said Drew Fox, associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Psychology and senior ...

She had not reported feeling fear since childhood. But when the researchers had her breathe air with elevated levels of carbon dioxide gas—which causes no real danger, but can trigger a sensation of ...

When people think about fear, Poffenroth says, most tend to substitute the word stress. Biologically, stress triggers our ...

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Research indicates that the amygdala plays a crucial role in threat detection and fear processing. Studies show that the amygdala responds to biologically relevant and unpredictable nonbiological ...

But both fear and anxiety utilize much of the same neural circuitry, with the amygdala flagging incoming stimuli as threatening and turning on defense systems of body and brain—vigilance ...

The social transmission of pain, for example, is mediated by a pathway involving the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the nucleus accumbens (NAc), while empathy-based fear is dictated by ...