Scientists just discovered that the primary messengers controlling the brain's "fear circuit" aren't what we thought they were. When you accidentally touch a pan on the stovetop or brush up ...

Your brain is all set to handle these kinds of rude surprises: The amygdala and prefrontal cortex estimate the size of the threat, and relay this information to the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray ...

In this study we used changes in expression of transcription factors as measures of neural activity to map neural activity throughout the fear circuit during fear memory formation and extinction ...