Altering a protein makes mice less fearful
...nsing ion channel protein (ASIC1a), reduces innate fear behavior in lab animals, making normally timid mic...ther than learned. For example, laboratory animals fear certain predators even though they have never been exposed to a predator. However, little is known a...Reading a face is tricky business
...ding the face of a person who is trying to conceal fear or other emotions is tricky business, according to... Though such microexpressions as a brief flash of fear are unlikely to be consciously noticed, they still get picked up by the brain and make their way thr...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
...ry young girls, often presented as virgins, due to fear of HIV and other infection, as well as to the widespread myth that sex with a virgin will cure such illnesses. As a result of client demand and of the relatively high profits earned from prostituting these very young girls, brothel owners take steps ...Presence of wolves allows aspen recovery in Yellowstone
...rvation, show that a process called the ecology of fear is at work, a balance has been restored to an impo... the behavior of the remaining elk, which in their fear of wolves tend to avoid browsing in certain areas where they feel most vulnerable. The two factors t...Drug protects brain cells in Huntington's disease model, researchers find
...e tested because there is no cure and because they fear loss of health insurance. There are treatments to lessen the symptoms, but there is currently no way to slow or halt the progression of the disease. In the current study, the UT Southwestern researchers used mice that were genetically engineered t......roteins) called Cdk5 facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context. Conversely, the learned fear persisted when the kinase's activity was increased in the hippocampus, the brain's center for storin...... facts, health physicists can minimize much of the fear and anxiety associated with natural and manmade ev...same context as RDDs. Van Cleef even suggests that fear and angst from a dirty bomb could result in more deaths from car accidents during the evacuation tha...The BBVA Foundation commits 2.4 million euros to research in Ecology and Conservation Biology
...ations suffering decline. And there are reasons to fear that the trend will accelerate, with most climate change analysts auguring a rise in sea level in the shorebirds habitats that will send populations into continuous decline until the end of the 21st century.The goal of this research project is to ana...Prey not hard-wired to fear predators
(JUNE 20, 2007) -- Are Asian elk hard-wired to fear the Siberian tigers who stalk them" When wolves ...ey species, including moose, caribou and elk, only fear predators they regularly encounter. If you take away wolves, you take away fear. That is a critica...Gannet population under threat from global warming
... seeing the numbers of unprotected chicks rise and fear it can only get worse. Gannets pair for life and breed annually, occupying the same nest each year. It takes forty days for an incubated egg to hatch and a further ninety days for chicks to fledge. Theres only time for each gannet pairing to raise ...A possible mechanistic link between stress and the development of Alzheimer tangles
...eplicates the bodys reaction to low-level anxiety, fear or social stress, resulted only in a transient phosphorylation of tau. However, when Rissman simulated chronic stress by repeating the procedure every day for two weeks, the modification lasted long enough to let tau molecules tumble off the cytoskel...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...ergy options, such as renewable power. Worse, they fear it will prolong fossil fuel use, if fossil fuels from some stationary sources can be used more cleanly. But the researchers continually emphasize the need to adopt other technologies in addition to carbon sequestration. ''Geological sequestration...New insights into the neural basis of anxiety
...ed the hippocampus play crucial roles in mediating fear responses in ambiguous situations. A mouse that ... shock comes to associate the two and freezes with fear whenever it hears the tone even if the shock is not delivered. But in real life the situation is not...A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
...our solar system are small enough that we need not fear a sudden obliteration. A second study, conducted by Abraham Loeb of Harvard University, examines the possibility of detecting a black hole that has been kicked by gravitational recoil. If the black hole is surrounded by a ring of gas, it will emit...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...easant than predictable sounds. Thus, surprise and fear share some common elements and pathways in mouse and humans. 4. The Limits of Neuronal Grafts in Parkinsonian Rats Nathalie Breysse, Thomas Carlsson, Christian Winkler, Anders Bjrklund, and Deniz Kirik Transplantation of embryonic dopaminergic (...Study shows response to financial loss parallels brain's processing of pain
...tems from an evolutionarily old system involved in fear and pain. This could provide some biological justification for the popular concept of "financial pain." Their study was published in the May 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience . "This work extends our understanding of how the striatum processe...Study shows tight diabetes control does not impact cognitive ability in type 1 diabetes
...e on conventional therapy. This finding raised the fear that, although tight control may lower the risk of developing serious diabetes complications, it might also lead to a long-term loss of cognitive ability. At the start of the DCCT, in order to evaluate the potential impact of diabetes treatment an...Forest elephants at risk from the illegal ivory trade
...nt than southern African nations, conservationists fear that legalizing even limited trade in ivory from southern African elephants will place the forest elephant in serious jeopardy. With logging and road-building in the Congo Basin projected to increase dramatically, Blake et al. set out to chart the...Migratory birds: Innocent scapegoats for the dispersal of the H5N1 virus
...enza. Paradoxically, the H5N1 virus coupled with a fear of transmission by wild birds could lead to a reversion to battery farming which increases risk of outbreaks. This would stall the current trend to better animal welfare resulting from free-range agriculture. Maintaining these trends, whilst controll...Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
...ction, but physicians are reluctant to do this for fear of increasing resistance to antibiotics. So were really in a catch-22 situation." Fischettis lab has done extensive research on lysins, which are proteins derived from viruses that normally infect bacteria. After a virus has infected the bacteria a...