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fear

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] Notes: - conditioned fear in a pregnant female rat may be transmitted to the fetus [3]

Related

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

Specific

fear of falling

General

emotion

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: 16286011
  4. Debiec J and Sullivan RM. Intergenerational transmission of emotional trauma through amygdala-dependent mother-to-infant transfer of specific fear. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 Jul 28 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/23/1316740111