News tagged with fear extinction

Researchers use computational models to study fear

The brain is a complex system made of billions of neurons and thousands of connections that relate to every human feeling, including one of the strongest emotions, fear. Most neurological fear studies have been rooted in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Well-timed timeout effective in wiping out fear memory response

Banishing a fear-inducing memory might be a matter of the right timing, according to new research.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Race to save the devil Down Under

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Men can rest easy -- sex chromosomes are here to stay

Fears that sex-linked chromosomes, such as the male Y chromosome, are doomed to extinction have been refuted in a new genetic study which examines the sex chromosomes of chickens.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

In search of the 'lost ladybug'

Leah Tyrrell wants to make something clear: She does not wear ladybug sweatshirts. She does not carry her belongings in ladybug bags, shelter from the rain beneath a ladybug-shaped umbrella, or take notes with pens decorated ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Yes, Australia can save its native woodland birds: study

Australia has a very good chance of being able to save most of its endangered native woodland birds, the findings of one of the biggest field studies ever conducted in this country suggest.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China 'river pig' deaths raise extinction fears

China says 16 endangered finless porpoises have been found dead since the beginning of the year and experts blame water pollution and climate change for pushing the species toward extinction.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Endangered Philippine hawk-eagle bred in captivity

A Philippine hawk-eagle feared to be heading for extinction has been bred in captivity for the first time, its breeders said Thursday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bats rebound in NY caves first hit by white-nose

(AP) -- Researchers found substantially more bats in several caves that were the first ones struck by white-nose syndrome, giving them a glimmer of hope amid a scourge that has killed millions of bats in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Miami blue butterfly to be declared endangered

The tiny Miami blue butterfly, reduced to a few hundred survivors on isolated islands off Key West, will be formally declared a federally endangered species on Friday.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elusive long-fingered frog found after 62 years

Herpetologists from the California Academy of Sciences and University of Texas at El Paso discovered a single specimen of the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila) during a research expedition to Bur ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Climate change threatens Seychelles habitat

Bursts of torrential rain lash the idyllic white beaches of the Seychelles, where conservationists fear that rare species such as the giant tortoise are at severe risk from climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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