Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into the synaptic connections of subgroups of interneurons, findings that may improve the understanding of fear responses and could ...

What many people call anxiety may actually be fear. Understanding how the brain’s alarm system works can completely change ...

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to visual fear shortcuts.

Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine while watching someone else in distress? This phenomenon, known as vicarious fear, allows us to experience fear by observing others—even when we are not ...

Hopefully, these new findings will lead to more effective interventions to help people with PTSD overcome paralyzing fear-conditioning—but more research is needed. If you'd like to read more on ...

Whether it's shaky hands or stumbling over words, we've all felt those telltale signs of fear at some point in our lives. But did you know there were different types of fear? Attachment therapist Eli ...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suffer from fear and anxiety long after the traumatic events that triggered their PTSD. We try to stop these debilitating feelings with a gamut of ...

A new study reveals that people with high psychopathic traits don't lack fear. Instead, their hearts race during scary ...

The left panel depicts direct fear, in which a mouse experiences an immediate threat such as a predator or footshocks, leading to robust defensive reactions and activation of survival circuits. The ...