threat reflex
2 episodes mention this concept
hubermanlabNov 6, 2025The Neuroscience of Fear & Trauma: Biology, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Tools
NeuroscienceNeural circuits of fearTraumaPost-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD)Fear extinction- hubermanlabDec 6, 2021
The Modern Neuroscience of Fear and Trauma: Mechanisms and Extinction Tools
NeuroscienceNeuroscience of fearTraumaPost-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD)Neural circuits
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Concepts that appear alongside threat reflex across episodes.
- top-down processing
- amygdala (amygdaloid complex)
- autonomic arousal
- hypervigilance
- trauma
- hpa axis (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis)
- post-traumatic stress disorders (ptsd)
- fear extinction
- prefrontal cortex (pfc)
- one-trial learning
- periaqueductal gray (pag)
- parasympathetic nervous system
- neural circuits
- neuromodulators
- nucleus accumbens
- sympathetic autonomic nervous system
- fawning response
- parasympathetic autonomic nervous system
- pavlovian conditioning (classical conditioning)
- gene expression (in fear embedding)