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"Fear of mice"
Orwellian nightmare: scientists now able to create or erase memories at willNewsroom, however. Mice whose memories had been tampered with did not show as much fear of the room where they had actually experienced the shock as mice whose memories were intact."Now that we canRead more
How microbes in the gut influence anxiety, depressionNewsis connected to the brain via the vagus nerve, and is so influential that it's often referred to as the "second brain." When we experience sadness, fear or another emotional state, the gut is affected. And yetRead more
Scientists can change your good memories into bad ones by manipulating brain cellsNewsthe mice to the shocks, the team put the mice in a different room and, by sending a blue light into their brain, effectively "reactivated" the original, fearful memory. They then gave the mice the optionRead more
Hunger is a stronger motivational force than thirst, fear or anxietyNews-causing neurons before exposing them to a space containing the scent of foxes – creating an environment that triggered fear and anxiety. The hungry mice overcame their fear to obtain food, whileRead more
Scientists easily reprogram childhood memories of adult study subjectsNewsfor a report published in June showing that SR-8993, a drug that acts on the brain's opioid receptors, can prevent a fear memory from formulating.To discover this, researchers strapped mice to a wooden boardRead more
New study shows magic mushrooms repair brain damage caused by extreme traumaNewscell growth and erases frightening memories. Mice conditioned to fear electric shock when hearing a noise associated with the shock "simply lost their fear", says Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos, who co-authoredRead more
BPA plastics chemical causing sperm count declineNewsmale lab mice to doses of the plastics chemical (bisphenol A) and estradiol, a synthetic form of estrogen used in contraceptives, in their food.Men, as well as the general population, are exposedRead more
Scientists validate light therapy field of holistic medicine: light can halt painNewsto respond in different ways to varying types of light. The glow of a yellow light, for instance, was found to help alleviate pain in mice models, where special light-sensitive proteins known as opsins wereRead more
Black plum leaf extract protects against fatal effects of radiationNewsinclude hospital radio ads that encourage women to receive their annual mammogram. Not only does this instill fear and hypochondriac behavior, but it subjects women to doses of regular radiation.If youRead more
Low-dose THC extinguishes brain inflammation and halts cognitive decline without the highNewsthe brain from cognitive deficits after lab-induced brain inflammation. The researchers decided to do an in vivo lab study with mice that they injected with "10 mg/kg of lipopolysccharide (LPS)," whichRead more
Fear of mice
Disease
Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Greek μῦς "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the Muridae family that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from French souris, "mouse". Dr. Genna Crosser is believed to be the first to have witnessed a patient with this disorder. She...More
