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SUMMARY:The Brain & Fear
DESCRIPTION: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?\nJust before Halloween is a great time to consider – what is fear anyway? Do you remember the last time you felt really afraid? Is it 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? \nBut fear is not an emotion at the ready all the time – it is only experienced when something is perceived as threatening. And situations perceived as threatening are based on previous fear-inducing encounters\, so require memory. Jelena Radulovic\, MD\, 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 shape their fear responses first through brain development\, and then through experiences of their inner and outer world. But what if you don’t know something is threatening\, would you be afraid? Dr. Radulovic will explain for us how this happens at the level of brain cells and networks. \nWe promise it will be non-scary but memorable! \nDr. Radulovic is a Professor of Neuroscience at Einstein College of Medicine in NY where she is Director ot the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME).
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LOCATION:The Bad Apple\, 658 W Belden Av\, Chicago\, 60614\, United States
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SUMMARY:Your Emotional Brain
DESCRIPTION:How does your brain manage the huge range of human emotions driving everything we do? \nCome take a behind-the-scenes tour of your brain!\nHow are you feeling today? Worried\, content\, nervous\, happy? Think about your work and your boss. Are you confident\, panicky\, annoyed? Now think about your partner\, a loved one\, your first childhood crush. Are you giddy\, anxious\, embarrassed\, excited? There is such a huge variety of human emotions and we know they can change shockingly fast. Those emotions drive us to do all sorts of things – in fact\, they drive most of what we do – all from just 3 lbs. of gray matter between our ears. Aren’t you curious to know how your brain manages all that all the time? Join ISC for an exciting tour through the different parts of your emotional brain to learn how they all interact to guide you\, and what happens when something goes wrong. \nFor the first in our series of programs on the brain\, Dr. Robin Nusslock\, of Northwestern University\, will lay the groundwork by giving us an intriguing tour of the three main systems of your emotional brain – fear\, reward\, and regulation – that make us so wonderfully (and sometimes annoyingly!) human\, by taking a tour of your emotional brain. \nTuesday\, Sept. 16\, 2025 at 6:30pm; doors open at 5:30pm \nThe Bad Apple\, 658 W Belden\, Chicago\, IL 60614 \nTickets $10 HERE \nRobin Nusslock\, PhD\, is a Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University where he directs the Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Lab and serves as Director of Clinical Psychology and Clinical Training. \n \n 
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LOCATION:The Bad Apple\, 658 W Belden Av\, Chicago\, 60614\, United States
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