Regular treadmill running during adolescence improves learning and memory in rats.
During adolescence, the baseline level of stress is thought to be greater than during other …

Fear is a graded central motive state ranging from mild to intense. As threat intensity
increases, fear transitions from discriminative to generalized. The circuit mechanisms that …

I had two main goals when writing this book. The first was to provide a comprehensive
review of the factors that contribute to excessive fear and anxiety disorders. This …

Scientific advances in the field of emotions suggest a framework for conceptualizing the
emotion-related aspects of prevention programs that aim to enhance children's …

Findings from fear-conditioning studies in rats and functional neuroimaging with human
volunteers have led to the suggestion that the amygdala is involved in the preattentive …

Emotions ubiquitously impact action, learning, and perception, yet their essence and role
remain widely debated. Computational accounts of emotion aspire to answer these …

Psychophysiology is a central hub connecting neurobiological and behavioral domains with
clinical science, thus providing ideal tools for increasing the understanding of mental …

The aim of this article is to review studies on human anxiety using the startle reflex
methodology and to apply the literature on context conditioning in rats to interpret the results …

Six and a half years after adoption, 6-to 12-year-old children reared in Romanian
orphanages for more than 8 months in their first years of life (RO, n= 18) had higher cortisol …

Cross-lagged panel analysis of interview data collected from survivors of traumatic physical
injury (N= 677) was used to examine the temporal relationship between anxiety sensitivity …