Researchers at Tulane University have identified brain circuits that help determine how fear responses change as perceived ...

Neuroscience helps us understand how fear works and how we can work with it. A fear-arousing experience that hearkens back to a trauma from long ago will feel to us as though it is happening right now ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used focused sound waves to temporarily quiet the amygdala in healthy adults, reaching a deep brain ...

“Fear can freeze us in place, push us to fight or flee, or even drive us to seek comfort in others,” said Ashley Reno, Psy.D., associate professor and chief psychologist in the University of Alabama ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro Francis, 44, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Biology ...

Fear can be a creepy subject to write about. But today, I write about it to normalize it and to call it out. For me, fear has been my constant companion most of my life — so much of what I do, I do ...