Question

Review the article, "Facing Our Fears." Open a document and make three columns. Label the first column "What I Already Knew"; the second column "What I Want to Learn More About"; and, in the third column "What I Learned." Respond to the article by completing the chart. This strategy allows you to self-evaluate the work you've done.

Answer 1

What I Already Knew:

Knowing how fear works inside the brain can help the medical problem of irrational fears.

Fear is an instinctive emotion required for evolutionary survival.

Counseling, self-awareness, soothing activities, and introspection can be helpful to avoid anxiety attacks.

Fear can make several bodily functions change.

Step-by-step explanation:

What I Want to Learn More About:

How the brain and the amygdala work to make traumatic events trigger anxiety attacks.

How to better help people to distinguish between a real threat and simply a perceived one.

What I Learned:

Anxiety disorders are more common than I thought they were, as around 40 million Americans experience them.

There´s a specific chemical reaction in the amygdala that makes us learn to overcome fear.

D-cycloserine in combination with therapy can strengthen that chemical reaction.