fear
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Introduction
The emotion associated anticipation or awareness of danger or undesirable event(s). Fear ellicits the stress response & is a motive for violence. Fear can also lead to errors in judgement.
Expression of innate fear & formation of memory for learned fear is controlled by expression of the stathmin gene in the amygdala & in other areas afferent to the amygdala.[3]
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References
- ↑ Veterans Administration
- ↑ Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Miriam-Webster Inc. Springfield, MA 1990
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Shumyatsky GP et al, Stathmin, a gene enriched in the amygdala, controls both learned and innate fear. Cell 2005; 123:697 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16286011
- ↑ Debiec J and Sullivan RM. Intergenerational transmission of emotional trauma through amygdala-dependent mother-to-infant transfer of specific fear. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 Jul 28 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/23/1316740111