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Less fear, more diversity
Fear is an instinctual response that’s adaptive and critical for survival when it is short-lived but can lead to anxiety disorders when chronic. Studying how the brain controls our fears helps us understand the mechanisms required to recover from traumatic experiences and what goes wrong when we don...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393550/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28414713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002079 |
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description | Fear is an instinctual response that’s adaptive and critical for survival when it is short-lived but can lead to anxiety disorders when chronic. Studying how the brain controls our fears helps us understand the mechanisms required to recover from traumatic experiences and what goes wrong when we don’t. Research in rodents has identified neural circuits and molecular mechanisms regulating fear expression. Rodent work has been amenable to translation to humans and has led to improvements in clinical therapies for anxiety disorders. The societal benefit of this type of research is magnified when performed in minority-serving institutions, offering high-caliber training opportunities to increase ethnic diversity in science. |
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spelling | pubmed-53935502017-05-04 Less fear, more diversity Quirk, Gregory J. PLoS Biol Research Matters Fear is an instinctual response that’s adaptive and critical for survival when it is short-lived but can lead to anxiety disorders when chronic. Studying how the brain controls our fears helps us understand the mechanisms required to recover from traumatic experiences and what goes wrong when we don’t. Research in rodents has identified neural circuits and molecular mechanisms regulating fear expression. Rodent work has been amenable to translation to humans and has led to improvements in clinical therapies for anxiety disorders. The societal benefit of this type of research is magnified when performed in minority-serving institutions, offering high-caliber training opportunities to increase ethnic diversity in science. Public Library of Science 2017-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5393550/ /pubmed/28414713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002079 Text en © 2017 Gregory J. Quirk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Matters Quirk, Gregory J. Less fear, more diversity |
title | Less fear, more diversity |
title_full | Less fear, more diversity |
title_fullStr | Less fear, more diversity |
title_full_unstemmed | Less fear, more diversity |
title_short | Less fear, more diversity |
title_sort | less fear, more diversity |
topic | Research Matters |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5393550/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28414713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002079 |
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