"Fear" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The affective response to an actual current external danger which subsides with the elimination of the threatening condition.
| Descriptor ID |
D005239
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.470.361
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fear" by people in Profiles.
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Late-adolescent onset of prefrontal endocannabinoid control of hippocampal and amygdalar inputs and its impact on trace-fear conditioning behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2024 Aug; 49(9):1417-1424.
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Fear of negative evaluation and intolerance of uncertainty: Assessing potential internalizing correlates of eating disorder-related clinical impairment and differences across diagnostic presentations. Eat Behav. 2024 Apr; 53:101869.
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Reducing fear and avoidance of memory loss improves mood and social engagement in community-based older adults: a randomized trial. BMC Geriatr. 2023 11 29; 23(1):786.
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Fear extinction is regulated by the activity of long noncoding RNAs at the synapse. Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 22; 14(1):7616.
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A thalamic-hippocampal CA1 signal for contextual fear memory suppression, extinction, and discrimination. Nat Commun. 2023 10 24; 14(1):6758.
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Synapse-Enriched m6A-Modified Malat1 Interacts with the Novel m6A Reader, DPYSL2, and Is Required for Fear-Extinction Memory. J Neurosci. 2023 10 25; 43(43):7084-7100.
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Heightened threat perceptions and reduced stability in anxiety and fear among U.S. adults who carry handguns. J Anxiety Disord. 2023 10; 99:102764.
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Fear of Dementia and the Obligation to Provide Aggregate Research Results to Study Participants. Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2022 10; 31(4):498-505.
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Oncology Drug Prescribing: The Influences of Greed and Fear. JCO Oncol Pract. 2022 09; 18(9):e1384-e1387.
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Three recommendations based on a comparison of the reliability and validity of the predominant models used in research on the empirical structure of psychopathology. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Apr; 130(3):297-317.