Fear

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 More General Terms 3 Additional Terms 4 References

Introduction

• The emotion associated anticipation or awareness of danger or undesirable event(s). Fear ellicits the stress response & is a motive for violence. Fear can also lead to errors in judgement.

• Expression of innate fear & formation of memory for learned fear is controlled by expression of the stathmin gene in the amygdala & in other areas afferent to the amygdala. [3]

More General Terms

• emotion

Additional Terms

• atathmin; phosphoprotein p19; pp19; leukemia-associated phosphoprotein p18; oncoprotein 18; Op18; pp17; prosolin; metablastin; protein Pr22 (STMN1, LAP18, OP18)

References

1. Veterans Administration
2. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Miriam-Webster Inc. Springfield, MA 1990
3. Shumyatsky GP et al, Stathmin, a gene enriched in the amygdala, controls both learned and innate fear. Cell 2005; 123:697 PMID: [1]

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