Brain & Fear -- What’s Memory Got to Do with it?

Just before Halloween is a great time to consider - what is fear anyway? Do you remember the last time you felt really afraid? Is fear innate or is it learned? What’s really going on within your brain that makes you afraid, and is there anything you can do about it?

Jelena Radulovic, PhD, Einstein College of Medicine, studies the neuroscience of fear and will share with us how researchers study it in the lab and what it means for us humans.

She’ll explain how animals inherit the ability to feel fear from their parents, and shape it first through brain development, and then through personal experiences of their inner and outer world.