Researchers have identified brain mechanisms that help animals suppress instinctive fear responses when threats prove ...

Fear is very useful for survival – but so is being able to control it. It’s wise to be scared of the unfamiliar, especially ...

Researchers have uncovered a neural mechanism in the brains of mice that enables them to override instinctive fear responses; dysfunction in this mechanism may contribute to inappropriate or excessive ...

Striem-Amit said, “Brain plasticity in these cases frees the brain to develop, possibly even for different possible uses for the visual cortex, among different people born blind.” Brain ...

Researcher suggest findings could help understand what happens in the brain when fear response regulation is impaired.

These connections can also explain the plasticity of the brain and how ... connections cannot develop from the primary visual cortex to the higher visual cortex. On the other hand, if these ...

This type of sensation is considered to be related to plasticity in the cortex, and is different from referred sensation, which can occur following peripheral nerve regeneration. 4 In the present ...

Prefrontal Cortex Plasticity and Therapeutic Interventions in Animal Model of FASD Cortical areas of the brain are extremely plastic and capable of many changes due to exposure to drugs, teratogens, ...

Neurocognitive Plasticity in Young Deaf Adults – Effects of ... Use in Age-Related Hearing Loss Previous studies suggest that the auditory cortex may be recruited for visual processing in deafness and ...

Researchers have uncovered a neural mechanism in the brains of mice that enables them to override instinctive fear responses; dysfunction in this ...