Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight response. George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via ...

Fear is often thought of as a negative emotion but is actually a natural protective response to perceived threats or danger. It helps us survive. When we experience a situation that causes fear, it ...

A fear of heights, known as acrophobia, is one of the most common fears people experience. For some, standing on a tall ...

Researchers at Tulane University have identified brain circuits that help determine how fear responses change as perceived threats diminish, offering new insight into how the brain regulates defensive ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

Mice have an instinctive reaction to hide when the shadow of a bird passes over. In a new study, scientists taught the rodents to overcome that fear. dubinkinv / 500px via Getty Images Humans have ...

As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, I have seen and studied how fear and anxiety work in our brain and body, and how they can prevent us from functioning well in our lives. One of my patients, a ...

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear. A new study in mice by MIT neuroscientists shows that the signal is the ...

I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive “fear ...