Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear
December 6, 2021 2h 11m 23 chapters
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0:00 Introducing Fear, Trauma & Trauma 2:20 Athletic Greens, InsideTracker, Helix Sleep 6:49 What is Fear? 11:52 Autonomic Arousal: “Alertness” vs. “Calmness” 13:44 Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (HPA axis) 17:37 “The Threat Reflex”: Neural Circuits for Fear 28:30 Controlling Fear: Top-Down Processing 32:27 Narratives: “Protective or Dangerous” 36:04 Attaching Fear to Events: Classical Conditioning & Memory 42:02 How Fear Learning Occurs: Long Term Potentiation, NMDA 46:10 Extinguishing (Reducing) Fears 50:30 Cognitive (Narrative) Therapies for Fear 57:56 Repetition of Narrative, Overwriting Bad Experiences with Good 1:05:48 EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing 1:14:09 Social Connection & Isolation Are Chemically Powerful
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