Youngwoo Choi,1 Quoc Quang Luu,1,2 Hae-Sim Park1,2 1Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea; 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate School of Ajou University, Suwon, KoreaCorrespondence: Hae-Sim Park, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164
Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear
Fear protects organisms by increasing vigilance and preparedness, and by coordinating survival responses during life-threatening encounters.The fear circuit must thus operate on multiple timescales ranging from preparatory sustained alertness to acute fight-or-flight responses.Here we studied the brain basis of sustained and acute fear using natura