Viewpoints: Approaches to defining and investigating fear

Dean Mobbs¹, Ralph Adolphs², Michael S Fanselow³, Lisa Feldman Barrett^{4

5}, Joseph E LeDoux^{6

7

8}, Kerry Ressler^{9

10}, Kay M Tye¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. dmobbs@caltech.edu.
² Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
³ Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Nathan Kline Institute, New York State Office of Mental Health, New York, New York, USA.
⁸ Departments of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical School, New York, New York, USA.
⁹ Division of Depression & Anxiety Disorders, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹¹ Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.

PMID: 31332374
PMCID: PMC6943931
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-019-0456-6

Viewpoints: Approaches to defining and investigating fear

Dean Mobbs et al. Nat Neurosci. 2019 Aug.

. 2019 Aug;22(8):1205-1216.

doi: 10.1038/s41593-019-0456-6.

Authors

Dean Mobbs¹, Ralph Adolphs², Michael S Fanselow³, Lisa Feldman Barrett^{4

5}, Joseph E LeDoux^{6

7

8}, Kerry Ressler^{9

10}, Kay M Tye¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. dmobbs@caltech.edu.
² Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
³ Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Nathan Kline Institute, New York State Office of Mental Health, New York, New York, USA.
⁸ Departments of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical School, New York, New York, USA.
⁹ Division of Depression & Anxiety Disorders, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹¹ Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.

PMID: 31332374
PMCID: PMC6943931
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-019-0456-6

Abstract

There is disagreement on how best to define and investigate fear. Nature Neuroscience asked Dean Mobbs to lead experts from the fields of human and animal affective neuroscience to discuss their viewpoints on how to define fear and how to move forward with the study of fear.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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