Neuroscience: Hacking the brain to overcome fear

Daniela Schiller ()
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Daniela Schiller: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.

Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-2

Abstract: Confronting fears is a core component of cognitive behavioural therapies for anxiety disorders, but also a major hurdle for patients. A new study introduces a method for reducing defensive responses without consciously confronting the threatening cues, paving the way for fear-reducing therapies via unconscious processing.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-016-0010

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