Mammals evolved a potent fear-motivated defensive system capable of single-trial fear learning that shows no forgetting over the lifespan of the animal. The basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) is ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 99, No. 21 (Oct. 15, 2002), pp. 13908-13913 (6 pages) It is well established that adrenal stress hormone-induced ...

At present, our understanding of the mechanisms that control the establishment and maintenance of polarized vesicular-transport routes in epithelial cells can be traced to the introduction of the ...

We like to idolise fearlessness and we equate it to bravery but there is a fine line between that and stupidity. Immunity to the pangs of fear would leave someone unable to assess threats to ...