Fear and Memory
One intense experience can create lasting fear, often leading to avoidance behaviors. Unlike positive experiences, negative ones can be learned in just a single trial, resulting in a profound impact on our perceptions and decisions. The fear system is designed to generalize these experiences, shaping our views of relationships and environments based on isolated incidents or accumulated events.In this clip
From this podcast
Huberman Lab
Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49
Related Questions
How does neuroplasticity relate to fear?
How does neuroplasticity work in fear?
In the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip Fear and Memory, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?