Fear response to traumatic or threatening situations helps us evade or escape danger. At the same time fear response is learned in the form of association between stimulus or situation and the ...
A new study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed. Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an ...
"I am often said to have identified the amygdala as the brain's 'fear' center. But the fact is, I have not done this, nor has anyone else." —Joseph LeDoux (2015) 3D illustration of both amygdala.