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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is an unusual game because it uses the same universe as the core titles from Frictional Games but tells an entirely new story, with a very different cast of characters. However, one of the leading developers working on the game says they aim for as many frights as the initial titles in the... |
30 March 2012
12:31 GMT |
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A team of experts based at the University of Michigan (U-M) argues that a new study carried out on lab rats has finally revealed the neural pathways fear uses to return to the brain, even after having been suppressed through behavioral approaches.
The reason why this study is important is that all behavioral therap... |
28 November 2011
09:58 GMT |
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In a new scientific study researchers at the University of Virginia, in the United States, conducted on unsuspecting mice, the team determined that it may be possible to reduce fear and anxiety symptoms in the tiny rodents by making good use of light.Though this research may seem a bit strange at first, it actually h... |
13 August 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Mankind has come a long way since its earliest days in the African savanna. As such, some of the emotions and heurisms that served us well over the eons, fear included, are no longer as relevant today as they were millennia ago. Scientists are now studying how to extinguish fear.In many instances of our daily lives, ... |
22 March 2011
10:38 GMT |
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At the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), researchers have been trying to understand how people become anxious, and how they deal with this emotion, for a long time. Recently, they managed an important breakthrough, when they identified two neural pathways critical for this process. When disaster strikes, so... |
10 February 2011
09:10 GMT |
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A team of Iowa University have identified the part of the brain that causes people to feel fear, and this discovery could be a step forward in improving the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, as well as other anxiety conditions.The researchers' case study was a woman who suffered from a rare c... |
17 December 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Scientists already knew that sleep plays a very important role in the development of memories, so three researchers affiliated with the Department of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, carried out a study focusing on the link between sl... |
8 December 2010
04:40 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) just published a new study, showing how the fear output of the amygdala, a region of the brain that controls fear, is kept in a delicate balance by two different mechanisms. The researchers say that the two different neural subtypes act to... |
11 November 2010
08:49 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, a group of researchers wanted to determine precisely what is it that makes the most well-known horror movies so popular with fans of the genre. The conclusions of the work are fairly interesting, the team says, given that the results have been known by filmmakers for many years. According t... |
28 May 2010
04:05 GMT |
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Scientists proposed some time ago that some of the most basic and widespread phobias people have may be innate, as in inherited even before birth. The most common ones are arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), and investigators say that this makes perfect sense from an evolutionary point... |
18 February 2010
06:31 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden, have just recently finished conducting a new set of investigations about what it is precisely that makes us fear our cities, but only in certain times and places. What the research has essentially focused on is the correlation that forms between the buildings and... |
8 February 2010
09:31 GMT |
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In a new set of experiments, scientists were able to stop the recollection of harmful memories in test participants, without the use of any mind-altering drugs. The new work, in addition to promising new therapies for people trying to get past traumatizing experiences, also challenges established scientific knowledge... |
10 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University Medical Center recently announced that they might have discovered a new explanation for why one of the most common types of anxiety disorders appeared. They argue that the condition may be caused by scrambled neural connections between regions of the cortex dealing with integrati... |
8 December 2009
06:59 GMT |
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It would appear that our genetic legacy also features some very intriguing left-overs, which are not necessarily of use to us today. One such feature is the fact that the human brain triggers a primordial type of fear when exposed to increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2), which makes us fear suffocation in the mo... |
26 November 2009
20:01 GMT |
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While most people tend to live a normal life, there are those of us who are paralyzed at the very sight or thought of certain stimuli. To regular people, mentioning a spider, or a tall building, does nothing to scare them, but, for some, this is their worst nightmare coming true. Here is a top of the six most debilit... |
24 October 2009
04:46 GMT |
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The human brain is a very complex construct, and one that is able to analyze the situations it finds itself in rationally. When this does not happen, adverse effects occur, such as falling for a lie and being misled, or experiencing stress and fear. Exposure to stress – in the sense of adverse stimuli – c... |
22 October 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Many psychopathic individuals seem fearless to the average person, and this behavior has been for a long time attributed to the fact that these people are cold-blooded. However, a new research seems to indicate that the real triggers behind their behavior is a form of attention deficit. The investigation puts a dent ... |
14 October 2009
20:51 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that the human brain features billions of neurons, all connected with each other via synapses and other channels. These connections are all related to everyday feelings, including one of the most powerful, fear. Studies on neural fear have usually focused on fear-conditioning experiments, b... |
1 October 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Activision Blizzard is big. And, more importantly in this tough economic times, it is turning to profit just as the video-game business is hardly hit by the economic downturn, with the NPD numbers for August showing a 16% decline when compared to 2008. The one man who seems to be directly responsible for this is Bobb... |
17 September 2009
17:41 GMT |
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It's a well-known fact that people like to close their eyes at times when listening to music, so as to feel more immersed in the auditory sensation. Music fans around the world do this constantly, often at the expense of their losing their workplace or alienating friends. A new scientific paper has recently reve... |
31 July 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Researchers have known for quite some time now the basic mechanisms associated with fear, as in what triggers it, and how it is encoded in the brain. But now, a new line of investigations has revealed the exact location in the brain where the feeling is stored, and the region is called the amygdala. The experiments t... |
7 July 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Researchers have just recently discovered that suppressing fear may no longer remain simply a question of training. They have uncovered that the portion of the brain associated with primal fear is not the amygdala, as some have been claiming for a few years, and that inhibiting another tiny region of the cortex can c... |
10 March 2009
06:17 GMT |
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F.E.A.R. 2 is set to arrive in early 2009, on February 13, and the developers at Monolith Studios say that the game needs to bring back all those fans who have been driven away from the franchise by the expansions and ports that other companies handled in the past.The original F.E.A.R. was developed by Monolith but d... |
30 December 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Doctors who use very technical terms when describing a disease to their patients are more likely to scare the people seeking their help than those who introduce medical conditions with their lay terms, instead of the correct medical ones. When hearing words they don't understand, especially in relation to their ... |
9 December 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Project Origin is F.E.A.R. 2 without being called that. Copyright and intellectual property issues make it so that Monolith cannot use the well known game, but they are developing one that's designed to make players forget the F.E.A.R. franchise while expanding the game universe and putting to shame the Extracti... |
26 August 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Individuals who have been through a traumatic event often tend to associate certain signals coming from the environment with the occurrence of the bad experience. Such signals are able to trigger fear and even panic attacks, but luckily, the brain has the ability to turn off traumatic feelings related to the memory o... |
31 July 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Your phone's alarm buzzes. You wake up. Grab the phone, stop the alarm, check email - nothing important. Call X, set up a meeting for later. Smile. Receive a call from the office - they need you earlier today. Frown. Wash, eat, dress, call Y, send email to W, send cute MMS to Z and decide to call her/him later t... |
5 April 2008
10:21 GMT |
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"He got friendly holding my hand/She got friendly down in the sand". Yeah, humans are the most social monkeys. But we do not establish friendships with anybody, we generally try to find out how trustworthy and compatible with us certain persons are. A new research made by a team led by anthropologist Katerina Semende... |
31 July 2007
05:36 GMT |
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The cheapest formula: blood and guts everywhere, flies and spiders that grow as big as a cow and suck you up. The pervert human nature is also revealed also through our pleasure of watching horror movies. Why do we pay for two hours of fear, disgust and terror, which are elicit negative feelings? (not to mention in m... |
28 July 2007
04:32 GMT |
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That's for sure. One in four employees detests his/her superiors. How can we bear this situation every day?In many offices, the creativity and good mood appear just around the coffee maker, when the chorus starts to rant and rave against the boss: this is the group therapy. The so efficient German workers waste ... |
24 March 2007
11:11 GMT |
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Having played Resident Evil 4 a couple of weeks ago, I'm still looking for a scare that would make me feel the same as Capcom's title did. Although nothing compares to Silent Hill, when it comes to nightmarish universes coupled with fierce zombies, I decided to give Cold Fear a shot. The title of the game m... |
6 March 2007
05:49 GMT |
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