This is something Orwell understood perfectly well, how fear enhances perception, but also corrupts it.
In rats, tiny injections of norepinephrine into the amygdala, a region of the brain that encodes fear, can enhance fear conditioning.
We conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to test our hypothesis that dexamethasone administration and the concomitant suppression of HPA axis hyperactivity would attenuate fear expression and enhance fear extinction in individuals with PTSD.
Furthermore, HFS of the vmPFC has been shown to reduce conditioned fear and enhance the extinction of aversive memory (Milad et al., 2002), whereas LFS induced impairment in extinction of conditioned fear (Shehadi and Maroun, 2012).
Any leader of Russia who evokes that fear can enhance his own authoritarianism.
If it is possible for families to be with women, while maintaining privacy and respect for others, we view this as a critical opportunity to minimize women's fear and enhance their comfort.
Furthermore, HFS of the vmPFC has been shown to reduce conditioned fear and enhance the extinction of aversive memory (Milad and Quirk, 2002; Milad et al., 2004), in contrast to LFS, which induced impairment in extinction of conditioned fear (Shehadi and Maroun, 2012).
While they have enthusiastically and publicly endorsed opening an office in Qatar, they have yet to clarify that it would be used for peace talks rather than, as some have feared, to enhance their international prestige while they wait out the American military withdrawal in 2014.
Moreover, as HDAC inhibitors can enhance fear learning and fear reconsolidation [ 35, 52], the clinical timing of HDAC inhibitor administration must be carefully controlled and, similarly to D-cycloserine [ 13], applied only following successful fear reduction induced during exposure-based therapy.
Turban Myths found that people fear a turban and beard -- essential articles of the Sikh faith -- and this fear is enhanced by media discourse, including statements made by national media figures like O'Reilly and Kilmeade.
