Washington, Oct. 20 -- : A recent study suggests that fear and and anxiety reflect overlapping set of neural building blocks in the brain.
The University of Maryland-led study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, indicates that some long-accepted thinking about the basic neuroscience of anxiety is wrong.
The report by an international team of researchers led by Alexander Shackman, an associate professor of psychology at UMD, and Juyoen Hur, an assistant professor of psychology at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, provides new evidence that fear and anxiety reflect overlapping brain circuits. The findings run counter to popular scientific accounts, highlighting the need for a major theoretical reckoning.
"The conceptual dis...