Anxiety is a psychological, physiological, and behavioral state induced in animals and
humans by a threat to well-being or survival, either actual or potential. It is characterized by …

Freezing is widely used as the main outcome measure for fear in animal studies. Freezing is
also getting attention more frequently in human stress research, as it is considered to play …

Survival in threatening situations depends on the selection and rapid execution of an
appropriate active or passive defensive response, yet the underlying brain circuitry is not …

Fear expression relies on the coordinated activity of prefrontal and amygdala circuits, yet the
mechanisms allowing long-range network synchronization during fear remain unknown …

A CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2018. A novel approach to
understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realize with …

The periaqueductal gray (PAG) has been commonly recognized as a downstream site in
neural networks for the expression of a variety of behaviors and is thought to provide …

For almost 5 decades, the scientific study of emotion has been guided by the assumption
that categories such as anger, sadness, and fear cut nature at its joints. provided a …

Brain imaging studies over two decades have delineated the neural circuitry of anxiety and
related disorders, particularly regions involved in fear processing and in obsessive …

This article reviews experimental evidence and theoretical constructs that implicate
serotonin (5-HT) modulation of defensive behavior within the midbrain periaqueductal gray …

Healthy mother–infant interactions are critical for the physical, cognitive, and psychological
development of offspring. Such interactions rely on numerous factors, including a positive …