The treatment of anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks has engaged many doctors and researchers with mixed success, however some experiments on rats have given some useful tips that could the application of the Amygdala Gland and how it can be re-programmed to alleviate panic attacks and panic attacks.
Researchers who were funded because of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered a new high tech technique to quell panic in rats. They ve detected the brain’s equivalent of an ‘all clear’ signal, that, when simulated, reduces the results of fear, and could even eliminate it altogether. This discovery can lead to physiological treatments for extreme fear responses observed in panic attacks that would not require any medication.
Rats normally freeze with fear in the event they hear a tone as compared to conditioned to come with an electric shock. Dr. Gregory Quirk and Mohammed Milad, coming from the Ponce School of drugs in Puerto Rico, just demonstrated that stimulating a section of the front section of the brain known as the prefrontal cortex, extinguishes this fear response by mimicking the brain’s own safety signal. They report on the findings in the November 7, 2002 issue of the essentials publication.
Dr Quirk explained that repeated knowledge of traumatic reminders with none adverse consequences causes those fear responses to gradually disappear. This relieves fear appears to be an lively in lieu of passive process, Hence it doesn’t erase the fear association from memory, but generates a new memory for safety purposes
The researchers recorded electrical workings of neurons inside the prefrontal cortex as rats were fear-conditioned by teaching his class to fear a sound by repeatedly pairing it with electrical shock. Then they abolished this conditioned fear by presenting the sound without the shock; the animals no longer froze once they heard the tone. Good of the brain that was conditioned to halt the anxiety would be the Amygdala Gland, and such treatment exists for being very successful in curing anxiety and panic attacks in humans.

September 28th, 2011
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