
The neural reward that makes avoiding your fears feel so good
We’re told that facing our fears can help us overcome them – but this misses the other intoxicating part of the equation
by Muhammad Badarnee & Mohammed R Milad
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Muhammad Badarnee received his PhD in psychological sciences from Tel Aviv University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He studies brain mechanisms underlying fear conditioning and recall of emotional memories.