Researchers map brain activity associated with a person’s anticipation of or direct confrontation with danger.

The brain is activated differently when it’s contemplating, rather than directly facing, a threat.

Responses to compounds in human sweat may help explain why people with autism spectrum disorder tend to struggle with social cues.

Researchers unveil the neural basis of alertness in larval zebrafish.   

While wiping fear from our brains may seem attractive, the emotion is an essential part of our behavioral repertoire.

Simultaneous stroking of one's real hand and a fake limb can lead that person to embody the fake on as their own.

How will the research enterprise fare under a Donald Trump administration? The scientific community reacts.

Neanderthal-human hybrid discovered; the neurobiology of fear behavior; and an insulin patch that responds to high glucose levels in mice

Scientists uncover the neurons in the mouse brain responsible for linking the sight of a looming object to scared behavior.

Drosophila exhibit component behaviors of the fear response, suggesting that researchers might use the model organisms to investigate the neural underpinnings of the emotion.