Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have looked at how the brain learns to suppress responses to fear, ...

Fear is hardwired into our brains from the moment we’re born. Loud noises and creepy-crawly insects just naturally give us […] ...

Initially, the mice ran for a shelter when the ominous shadow appeared, as their classic instinctive fear response kicked in. But after 30 to 50 simulated swoops, ... anxiety and phobias.

Colloquially, people sometimes say they have a phobia of something they're fearful or wary of — but what really counts as a specific phobia, as it's understood in psychology?