{"id":67848,"date":"2019-12-10T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/67848"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T14:00:34","slug":"stanford-neurobiologists-use-vr-to-explore-responses-to-stress-anxiety-and-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/67848","title":{"rendered":"Stanford neurobiologists use VR to explore responses to stress, anxiety, and fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fear factory: Stanford neurobiologists use VR to explore responses to stress, anxiety, and fear\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOuw6gMj1d0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>Andrew Huberman of Stanford University School of Medicine is studying the neuroscience of how what we see influences our emotions, especially fear. \n \nUsing virtual reality (VR), he exposes study participants to terrifying scenarios, including attack encounters with sharks, spiders, and a pit bull, and stepping off a very high, narrow plank.\n \nHuberman, an associate professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford, measures participant responses with sensors attached to their skin, by monitoring their pupil diameters, and by simply asking participants to say what they\u2019re feeling.\n \nHe aims to test techniques that, if successful, could help people with phobias, generalized anxiety syndrome, or post-traumatic stress disorder recover their composure in situations that trigger fear.\n\nRead the Stanford Medicine Magazine article: http:\/\/stanmed.stanford.edu.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Huberman of Stanford University School of Medicine is studying the neuroscience of how what we see influences our emotions, especially fear. Using virtual reality (VR), he exposes study participants to terrifying scenarios, including attack encounters with sharks, spiders, and a pit bull, and stepping off a very high, narrow plank. Huberman, an associate professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/67848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stanford neurobiologists use VR to explore responses to stress, anxiety, and fear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[37492,37484,696,16126,16125,16124,19,16123,16122,16121,16120,213,518,1900,37493,37486,34235,37487,37014,37490,960,5919,6289,37485,5696,6752,37491,37488,37489],"class_list":["post-67848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-acrophobia","tag-andrew-huberman","tag-anxiety","tag-anxiety-affirmations","tag-anxiety-after-drinking","tag-anxiety-and-depression","tag-anxiety-attack","tag-anxiety-attack-scene","tag-anxiety-changes","tag-anxiety-disorder","tag-anxiety-relief","tag-arachnophobia","tag-brain","tag-fear","tag-galeophobia","tag-neurobiology","tag-neuroscience","tag-ophthalmology","tag-phobia","tag-post-traumatic-stress","tag-ptsd","tag-sharks","tag-spiders","tag-stanford-school-of-medicine","tag-stress","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vision-research","tag-vr","tag-vr-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}