{"id":205800,"date":"2025-02-07T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-discover-brain-mechanism-that-helps-overcome-fear"},"modified":"2025-02-07T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:15:13","slug":"scientists-discover-brain-mechanism-that-helps-overcome-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-discover-brain-mechanism-that-helps-overcome-fear","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover brain mechanism that helps overcome fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-brain-mechanism-that-helps-overcome-fear2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) at UCL have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. Published in <i>Science<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adr2247\" target=\"_blank\">the study<\/a> in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Dr. Sara Mederos and Professor Sonja Hofer, mapped out how the brain learns to suppress responses to perceived threats that prove harmless over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumans are born with instinctive <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/fear\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fear<\/a> reactions, such as responses to loud noises or fast-approaching objects,\u201d explains Dr. Mederos, Research Fellow in the Hofer Lab at SWC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) at UCL have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. Published in Science, the study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The research team, led by Dr. Sara Mederos [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205800","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}