Study Reveals How Quick Therapy Can Help Patients Overcome Fear

A new study from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., shows how the human brain reorganizes itself to maintain “fear extinction.”

The research was conducted by Katherina Hauner, a postdoctoral neurology fellow at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, who used “exposure therapy” to treat a student for fear of spiders … and cured him. The results of her work have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and documents the immediate and long-term brain changes after treatment for a phobia. Click here to read the full article in the Chicago Tribune.