{"id":183558,"date":"2024-02-24T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-neural-pathway-that-explains-the-escalation-of-fear-responses"},"modified":"2024-02-24T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T03:24:22","slug":"scientists-discover-neural-pathway-that-explains-the-escalation-of-fear-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-neural-pathway-that-explains-the-escalation-of-fear-responses","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover neural pathway that explains the escalation of fear responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-neural-pathway-that-explains-the-escalation-of-fear-responses3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Survival requires the selection of appropriate behaviour in response to threats, and dysregulated defensive reactions are associated with psychiatric illnesses such as post-traumatic stress and panic disorder.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new neural pathway involved in how the brain encodes the transition to high-intensity fear response behaviors that are necessary for survival, according to a recent study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06912-w\">published<\/a> in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Jones Parker, Ph.D., assistant professor of Neuroscience, of Pharmacology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was a co-author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>In mammals, the amygdala is involved in generating survival responses and transitioning to different high-intensity <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/fear\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fear<\/a> behaviors such as freezing or immobility (avoidance behavior) to escaping (flight behavior) in response to perceived threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survival requires the selection of appropriate behaviour in response to threats, and dysregulated defensive reactions are associated with psychiatric illnesses such as post-traumatic stress and panic disorder. Scientists have discovered a new neural pathway involved in how the brain encodes the transition to high-intensity fear response behaviors that are necessary for survival, according to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}