Experiencing fear in safe environments can enhance resilience and mental health, although enjoyment differs from person to ...

A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related ...

Mechanism involving neurons that stimulate fear, and ones that suppress it, could help to explain conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

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 reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham discovered that interactions between immune cells and brain cells play a key role in ...

A new study suggests that fear and the immune system are connected in previously unknown ways. Researchers found that the immune system can influence stress and fear behaviors by changing how brain ...

Researchers say study underscores how psychedelics may help dial down inflammation and reset brain-immune interactions.

Fear and stress have ... To better understand these responses and to improve psychological treatments, scientists have spent decades studying the underlying brain mechanisms, with particular ...

Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine while watching someone else in distress? This phenomenon, known as vicarious fear, allows us to experience fear by observing others—even when we are not ...

This study explains how the brain reacts more intensely to negative expectations, intensifying pain and reducing the effect ...

"We think that just an acute dose of psychedelics recalibrates tissue plasticity that can be disrupted by stress or even potentially mood disorders," said the study's corresponding author Michael ...