Research exploring the idea that blocking these receptors would disrupt the creation of proteins necessary for consolidating fearful memories in the amygdala.
The antagonizing of a subtype of receptor for Neuropeptide Y caused the opposite effects- it decreased the likelihood that a fearful memory would be forgotten.
There are also more subtle effects: fearful memories of being evacuated in the middle of the night, and the incessant dust that cakes the sidewalks.
Those steroids may make it harder to recall fearful memories, thus helping to calm phobias, write Leila Soravia, DrPhil, and colleagues.
Breathing heavily, Kellen fell suddenly still and his eyes fogged with fearful memory.
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been said to influence the amygdala by monitoring its reaction to emotional stimuli or even fearful memories.
For a moment, it looked as if some fearful memory disturbed Aunt Dorath's composure, but she shook her head once, the way a horse would to dislodge a gadfly, and her face grew calm.
The words were very familiar to him, and yet as he read on through them they awoke in him strange sensations and fearful memories that he knew were not his.
Were they merely made fearful by ancestral memories of their defeat and persecution in the distant past, or was 0 truly that much more powerful than the Calamarain?
Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life, and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else's brother going off to fight.