"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.
| Descriptor ID |
D005239
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.470.361
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fear" by people in Profiles.
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The Impact of COVID-19 Fear on Mental Health of Community Behavioral Health Providers. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2024 Sep 18; 18:e114.
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The unique face of comorbid anxiety and depression: Increased frontal, insula and cingulate cortex response during Pavlovian fear-conditioning. J Affect Disord. 2024 Dec 01; 366:98-105.
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Exploring the effects of cannabis health warnings on protective health intentions among US adults in legal recreational states. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Jun; 128:104450.
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Sadness and fear, but not happiness, motivate inhibitory behaviour: the influence of discrete emotions on the executive function of inhibition. Cogn Emot. 2024 Dec; 38(8):1160-1179.
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Fear extinction is regulated by the activity of long noncoding RNAs at the synapse. Nat Commun. 2023 11 22; 14(1):7616.
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When Cigarette Smoking Meets COVID-19: How the Two Types of Threat and Efficacy Perceptions Interactively Predict Danger Control and Fear Control Processes. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 02 08; 20(4).
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Fear of COVID-19 among nonsmokers and smokers/former smokers: Implications for health promotion practice. J Emerg Manag. 2023 Special Issue on COVID-19; 21(7):307-313.
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Integrating fear of fatness into sociocultural models of body image and eating concerns. Eat Behav. 2022 08; 46:101653.
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Behavioral and neural responses during fear conditioning and extinction in a large transdiagnostic sample. Neuroimage Clin. 2022; 35:103060.
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Sex Differences between Medical Students in the Assessment of the Fear of COVID-19. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 03 13; 19(6).