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In this review, Dr. Fanselow describes the relationship between the National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.A.) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Negative Valence System related to responses to threat and the Predatory Imminence Continuum model of antipredator defensive behavior.
There are sex differences in anxiety disorders with regard to occurrence and severity of episodes such that females tend to experience more frequent and more severe episodes. Contextual fear learning and generalization are especially relevant to anxiety disorders…click here to read more!
Dr. Fanselow is excited to be speaking during the keynote session at the upcoming Predator-Prey Interaction Gordon Research Conference on Sunday, January 26th, 2020. His talk is entitled, “From Fear to Panic: Predatory Imminence and the Transition Between Modes in the Defensive Behavior System”.
Senior author Michael Fanselow, UCLA distinguished Staglin family professor of psychology and director of UCLA’s Staglin Family Music Festival Center for Brain and Behavioral HealtNews of your Scientific Reports research is the lead story on the UCLA Newsroom: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/ and is on UCLA’s home page: http://www.ucla.edu/ (on the left, under Newsroom: ‘Study reveals how brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder’)…
Study reveals how brain injury can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. UCLA team finds that the brain processes fear differently after injury. Post-traumatic stress disorder in U.S. military members frequently follows a concussion-like brain injury. Until now, it has been unclear why. A UCLA team of psychologists and neurologists reports that a traumatic brain injury causes…