 Fear
"Fear" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The affective response to an actual current external danger which subsides with the elimination of the threatening condition.
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D005239
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.470.361
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fear" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fear" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1997 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1999 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2003 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2004 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 2007 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2008 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2009 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2010 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2011 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2012 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2013 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2014 | 2 | 9 | 11 | | 2015 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2016 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2017 | 7 | 6 | 13 | | 2018 | 7 | 7 | 14 | | 2019 | 6 | 9 | 15 | | 2020 | 5 | 10 | 15 | | 2021 | 8 | 7 | 15 | | 2022 | 3 | 11 | 14 | | 2023 | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 2024 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2025 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fear" by people in Profiles.
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Hohorst AA, Tanner MK, Han R, Korth KM, Westerman JD, Mendoza CS, Dryden MQ, Alvarez LA, Abdul RA, Loetz EC, Oleson EB, Greenwood BN. High ovarian hormones present during fear extinction reduce fear relapse through a nigrostriatal dopamine pathway. Biol Sex Differ. 2025 Jun 01; 16(1):38.
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Mintken PE, McDevitt AW, Lewis J. The Worst Pain Is an Unexplained Pain. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2025 05; 55(5):307-311.
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Gil MA, Michel CJ, Olivetti S, Sridharan V, Hein AM. Integrating Landscapes of Fear and Energy Reveals the Behavioural Strategies That Shape Predator-Prey Interactions. Ecol Lett. 2025 Feb; 28(2):e70068.
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Kuruppath P. Integrating optogenetic stimulation of olfactory bulb glomeruli with foot shock fear conditioning: A robust method for investigating olfactory-based fear conditioning. Eur J Neurosci. 2025 Feb; 61(4).
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Kuruppath P. Bilateral Optogenetic Stimulation of the Olfactory Bulb of OMP-ChIEF Mice. Methods Mol Biol. 2025; 2915:189-200.
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Arch JJ, Kirk MH, Finkelstein LB. Patient-Reported Worst-Case Scenarios in Advanced Cancer: Presence, Contents, and Predictors. Psychooncology. 2024 Dec; 33(12):e70039.
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Knoepke CE, Meza K, Portz JD, Ranney ML, Fisher SM, Omeragic F, Greenway E, Castaneda M, Matlock DD, Betz ME. Whether and how to store firearms in the home: Qualitative insights from care partner experiences in the Safety in Dementia Trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Feb; 73(2):379-388.
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Hartsock MJ, Levy CT, Navarro MJ, Saddoris MP, Spencer RL. Circadian Rhythms in Conditioned Threat Extinction Reflect Time-of-Day Differences in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Neural Processing. J Neurosci. 2024 Sep 25; 44(39).
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Lac A. How should coronaphobia Be conceptualized? Evaluating competing models of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale using confirmatory factor analysis. J Psychiatr Res. 2024 Oct; 178:164-172.
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O'Donnell HK, Johnson SB, Driscoll KA. The Maintain High Blood Glucose subscale of the child hypoglycemia fear survey: proposed preliminary cut points for screening youth with type 1 diabetes. J Pediatr Psychol. 2024 Jun 13; 49(6):421-428.
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