http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered that changes in patterns of brain activity during fearful experiences predict whether a long-term fear memory is formed. The research results have recently been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-patterns-brain-memory-formation.html Neuroscience Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:17:00 EST news281603810 Fear responses can only be erased when people learn something new while retrieving the fear memory. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and published in the leading journal Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-memory-susceptible-eradication-responses.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:30:04 EST news280427069 A rustle of undergrowth in the outback: it's a sound that might make an animal or person stop sharply and be still, in the anticipation of a predator. That "freezing" is part of the fear response, a reaction to a stimulus in the environment and part of the brain's determination of whether to be afraid of it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-neuroscientists-memory-amygdala.html Neuroscience Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:31:31 EST news278587877 Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings may represent a breakthrough in research on memory and fear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-erase-brain.html Neuroscience Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:01:01 EST news267368436 Fear conditioning using sound and taste aversion, as applied to mice, have revealed interesting information on the basis of memory allocation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-neurological-basis-memory.html Neuroscience Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:25:16 EST news259244323 (Medical Xpress) -- Neuroscientists at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute have discovered a previously unrecognized layer of gene regulation associated with fear extinction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-formation-extinction-memory.html Neuroscience Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:56:43 EST news232617359