Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...

Most people are familiar with the language of fight, flight, or freeze to describe the body’s instinctive survival responses ...

Most people describe their response to misophonia triggers as emotional. Yet, emotions are only a part of the misophonia ...

When trauma strikes, your brain isn’t asking for your opinion—it’s doing its best to keep you alive. Understanding the ...

“We are social creatures who learn from others,” says Arash Javanbakht, a psychologist at Wayne State University and author ...

Living with negativity bias, prompted by constant false alarms, can seriously impact your health over time. Since the nervous system is constantly sending stress hormones into the body with each false ...

Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November 22, 2022 explaining that some authors describe “4 F’s”: fight, flight, ...

Fear is not only a personal experience, but also a social phenomenon that can be transmitted between people. Psychologists ...

By A K Merchant What makes us human, and why is there a systemic breakdown at all levels of present-day society? Multiple ...

Scam calls exploit the brain's fear response to trigger panic and irrational decisions. Mindfulness and awareness can help ...