【sex video on tumblr】

Imagine if your fear of spiders,sex video on tumblr heights or confined spaces vanished, leaving you with neutral feelings instead of a sweat-soaked panic.

A team of neuroscientists said they found a way to recondition the human brain to overcome specific fears. Their approach, if proven in further studies, could lead to new ways of treating patients with phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

SEE ALSO: Your brain needs a break — these apps are here to help

The international team published their findings Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

About 19 million U.S. adults, or 8.7 percent of the adult population, suffer prominent and persistent fears at the sight of specific objects or in specific situations, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

PTSD, another type of anxiety disorder, affects about 7.7 million U.S. adults and can develop after a person experiences trauma, such as sexual assault or military combat.

The authors of Monday's study said they wanted to develop alternatives to existing treatments for anxiety. Aversion therapy, for instance, involves exposing patients to their fear with the idea that they'll learn dark rooms, tall buildings or cramped elevators aren't harmful after all.

The new approach combines artificial intelligence (AI) and brain scanning technology in a technique called "Decoded Neurofeedback."

Mashable Trend Report Decode what’s viral, what’s next, and what it all means. Sign up for Mashable’s weekly Trend Report newsletter. By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

For their experiment, neuroscientists worked with 17 healthy volunteers. Rather than test participants' existing phobias, the researchers created a new, mild "fear memory" by giving volunteers a brief electrical shock when they saw a certain computer image.

Via Giphy

The brain scanner monitored volunteers' mental activity and was able to spot signs of that specific fear memory. Using AI image recognition methods, researchers said they developed a fast and accurate method to read that fear memory information.

"The challenge then was to find a way to reduce or remove the fear memory, without ever consciously evoking it," Ben Seymour, a co-author and a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department, said in a press release.

Seymour said the team realized that volunteers' brains still showed signs of that specific fear memory, even when they were resting and not consciously aware of the fear.

Since scientists could quickly decode those brain patterns, they gave participants a small amount of money, so that the fear memories would become associated with rewards. Volunteers were told their cash reward reflected their brain activity, but they didn't know how. The team repeated this procedure over three days.

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

"In effect, the features of the [fear] memory that were previously tuned to predict the painful shock were now being re-programmed to predict something positive instead," said Ai Koizumi, the study's lead author and a researcher at the Center of Information and Neural Networks in Osaka, Japan.

At the end of the reward therapy, the neuroscientists showed volunteers the same pictures that were previously associated with the electric shocks. The brain's fear center, the amygdala, no longer showed any enhanced activity.

"This meant that we'd been able to reduce the fear memory without the volunteers ever consciously experiencing the fear memory in the process," Koizumi said in the press release.

The study's authors noted that their experiment was relatively small and said further research was needed to turn this approach into a verified clinical treatment for patients with phobias or PTSD. Still, they said they hoped "Decoded Neurofeedback" could help patients avoid the stress of exposure therapies or the side-effects of drug-based therapies.

---

Featured Video For You

---

Implanted brain chip restores hand movement in man with paralysis

---

• Science
• Shopping
• Tech
• Entertainment
• Games
• Life
• Digital Culture
• Deals

• NYT mini crossword answers for April 24, 2025
• The Weather Channel invites you to a have a politics
• Inside the Carney Awards, where character actors like Steve Buscemi get their due
• The next frontier for startups is urban tech
• Best Sonos deal: Save $50 on Sonos Era 100
• New antenna joins NASA's deep space network to support Mars mission
• Harry Potter Yoga just might be better than Quidditch
• He's with her: How to address Bill Clinton if Hillary wins
• Alienware M16 Gaming Laptop deal: Save $560
• Facebook stops insurer from setting rates based on profiles

• More ripples in space time detected, casting light into black holes
• How an ancient methane 'blow
• 'Splatoon 2' voice chat leaves us asking: What exactly is Nintendo smoking?
• Kirsten Dunst has all the shade to throw at 'Spider
• 'Sharknado 5' just got a perfectly terrible title and tagline
• Smart blocks connect to your iPad, making regular building blocks look downright ancient
• Walmart has employees deliver packages on their way home from work
• Spectacles have FINALLY arrived in Europe
• Stuck subway passengers throw impromptu graduation for student missing his ceremony
• The tech world is becoming more political, and not everyone likes it

• 13 Good Games You Can Play on Laptops and Budget PCs
• First College Football Playoff rankings immediately deliver argument fodder
• Fans aren’t feeling too fantastic about Johnny Depp in ‘Fantastic Beasts’
• Hawaii's bees are now protected under U.S. Endangered Species Act
• Japan orders Google to stop alleged antitrust violations
• The Apple Watch just got a selfie camera
• 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Halloween challenge returns for sixth year
• You can get Amazon Prime Video for just $7.5 a year in India
• Trump's new tariff plan spares some smartphones, laptops
• Hey Samsung Galaxy Note7 users, LG's V20 is worth a look

• Every MCU movie villain ranked, from "Iron Man" to "Thunderbolts*"
• He's with her: How to address Bill Clinton if Hillary wins
• New antenna joins NASA's deep space network to support Mars mission
• Why this British artist wants to 'F*ck Donald Trump'
• Shop the Shark FlexStyle for 20% off at Amazon
• Netflix downloads could be here soon, but not for U.S. users
• India is obsessed with the resignation of a TV news show host
• New Delhi continues to choke with polluted air after Diwali
• Puerto Rico hurricane crisis: Here's why this could be Trump's Katrina
• This 'Stranger Things' jack