Posture found able to communicate fear
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A Harvard researcher says seeing someone in a fearful posture triggers areas of the brain that express emotion and prime the body for action, even without seeing the person&#39;s facial expression.
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It is something that the makers of horror films have instinctively known for years - seeing someone wide-eyed with fear scares the living daylights out the rest of us who are watching.
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U.S. researchers said on Wednesday   they had identified an "on-off" switch in the brain that   controls the emotional response to fear, and said it might some   day be manipulated to help patients with anxiety disorders.
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Scientists use technology developed in Glasgow to discover that the eyes can be a giveaway when it comes to identifying fear in people's faces.
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People's brains react to a photograph of a frightened face, even when it is flashed on a screen too quickly to be consciously recognized, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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It has long been suspected that man's best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us.
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Fear is a handy evolutionary mechanism for staying out of danger. So why do we get off on it sometimes?
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At a scary time for patients, too few doctors ask about feelings, a new study finds.
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Our emotions allow us to ignore some threats as we grow overly concerned with others
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Wall Street is being spooked by the wrong fear. The ''I'' word is scarier
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NEW YORK  - People who suffer from what was once called "hysteria" show altered patterns of brain activity connected to their symptoms, researchers reported Monday.
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Hand-holding couples may be protected from pain and stress, a study shows.
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Patients with chronic pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia, appear to have abnormalities in the self-monitoring mechanism that allows the discrimination of internally produced versus externally produced stimuli, new research shows.
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We have always suspected that man's best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us, but the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to ...
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The areas of the brain involved in learning fears have been known, but new research now identifies the areas involved in extinguishing those fears.
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Scientists believe a select group of people can spot when someone is lying.
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If you look into the eyes of someone who is frightened, your brain will pick up on the fear in a split second, well before you can consciously put a name to the emotion, scientists say.