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  2. Fear processing in the brain - Wikipedia

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    The modulation of all of the different types of plasticity is called heterosynaptic plasticity. Homosynaptic plasticity is also prevalent which consists solely of the Hebbian plasticity. In a variety of model systems, it has been shown that monoamines modulate plasticity underlying memory formation such as a heightened percept of fear. [8]

  3. Effects of stress on memory - Wikipedia

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    Explicit memory includes memory for remembering a specific event, such as dinner the week prior, or information about the world, such as the definition for explicit memory. When an anxious state is provoked, percentage recall on explicit memory tasks is enhanced. However, this effect is only present for emotionally associated words. [39]

  4. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  5. Recall (memory) - Wikipedia

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    There is barely any recalled memory in cases of fear and trauma exposure, brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, pain, or anxiety. Recall memory is very limited, since the only memory people with these problems have is the flash backs of what happened when the event took place. [62]

  6. Unnerving Physical Symptoms? Anxiety's Not All In Your Head - AOL

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    Itching. Pooping. Hunger. Headaches. Learn how the signs of anxiety can show up in your body, not just in your brain.

  7. Emotion and memory - Wikipedia

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    Autobiographical elaboration is known to benefit memory by creating links between the processed stimuli, and the self, for example, deciding whether a word would describe the personal self. Memory formed through autobiographical elaboration is enhanced as compared to items processed for meaning, but not in relation to the self. [37] [38]

  8. Crying - Wikipedia

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    Crying on Imam Hussain is the sign or expression of true love. The imams of Shias have encouraged crying especially on Imam Hussain and have been informed about rewards for this act. They support their view through a tradition (saying) from Muhammad who said: (On the Day of Judgment, a group would be seen in the most excellent and honourable of ...

  9. Central nucleus of the amygdala - Wikipedia

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    CeA "is essential for acquiring and expressing conditional fear after overtraining" [18] "glucocorticoids can facilitate CRH mRNA expression in the CEA, a site implicated in anxiety and fear" [ 19 ] Neuronal activity in the central nucleus of the amygdala was found to be a critical brain substrate for incubation of methamphetamine craving as ...