Biologist Lena Goedecke investigates how nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other and regulate anxiety reactions. In her guest article, she gives insights into her doctoral thesis, which she did at the graduate school of the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence.
Guest contribution by Dr. Lena Goedecke, biologist in the research group of Prof. Hans-Christian Pape at the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence It is the day of my PhD defense. Everyone came: Family, friends, colleagues, my doctoral supervisor and the other reviewers. They are sitting in the auditorium, curiously waiting to hear about my three-year research project. Facing them, I go weak at the knees. My heart is beating fast, I am breathing rapidly and my hands are clammy and a bit shaky. What I am experiencing here, with the adrenaline pumping through my body, is known as the autonomic stress response or - to put it simply - fear. A network in the brain regulates fear and anxiety.
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