The first thing is that with fear memories, it's one of the most, if not the most, most studied kind of memory in rodents. It ...

“First [we] trigger the fear memory by exposing people to a situation or stimulus that they fear,” she says. Kindt then adds something new to the experience, such as challenging a patient ...

This study models early life stress (ELS) to observe sex-specific effects on fear memory formation using innovative unsupervised classification together with cellular metabolism alterations in key ...

Since Pavlov's original conditioning studies, a key question has been whether this extinction process erases the memory for the original fear conditioning, or instead lays down a new memory that ...

Recalling a favorite vacation may summon pleasure for years to come, whereas the fear that accompanies a memory of assault might cause a victim to never return to the scene of the crime. Tonegawa ...

Current research focuses on understanding how the menstrual cycle influences fear memory formation, using sophisticated methods to measure sex hormones and fear responses in both species.