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Coping strategies and emotional well-being were the most prominent quality of life issues experienced amongst 35 caregivers of individuals with childhood glaucoma. Caregivers identified decision-making in family planning as an important quality of life issue.
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Mashup Score: 0Omicron and the virus of fear - 2 year(s) ago
As I wrote in my book, “COVID: the Politics of Fear and the Power of Science,” words matter.
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Mashup Score: 4Dr. Siegel: 'Very likely' omicron variant is in US - 2 year(s) ago
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel says the magnitude of the threat posed by the omicron COVID variant isn’t known yet
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Mashup Score: 23The brain uses bodily signals to regulate fear - 2 year(s) ago
Fear is essential for survival, but must be well regulated to avoid harmful behaviors such as panic attacks or exaggerated risk taking. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have now demonstrated in mice that the brain relies on the body’s feedback to regulate fear. The brain’s insular cortex strongly reacts to stimuli signaling danger. However, when the body freezes in response…
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Researchers have identified a neural circuit that regulates threat response in mice.
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Mashup Score: 33New study uncovers brain circuits that control fear responses - 3 year(s) ago
Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre have discovered a brain mechanism that enables mice to override their instincts based on previous experience.
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Mashup Score: 25What happens in the brain during fear learning? - 3 year(s) ago
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China and one in Germany has learned more about what happens in the brain when a person experiences fear by studying data from probes placed deep in the brains of epileptic patients. The paper is published in Science Advances.
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Mashup Score: 27‘Triple Contagion’: How Fears Influence Coronavirus Transmission - Neuroscience News - 3 year(s) ago
A new mathematical model incorporates fear, both of infection and vaccination, to better understand how pandemics occur in multiple waves of infection, as we are witnessing with COVID-19.
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Mashup Score: 3Virtual intervention reduces fear of breast cancer recurrence - 3 year(s) ago
A targeted virtual health intervention was effective for reducing fear of recurrence among breast cancer survivors, according to a clinical trial published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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The central amygdala isn’t only the hub for fear response in the brain, it also contains microcircuits that regulate the suppression of fear response.
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