INTRODUCTION
This web symposium on the neurobiology of stress, fear and anxiety was organized by Dr. Bruce McEwen of the Rockefeller University in New York City, USA.  The lectures below cover different neuroscience aspects of the topic of stress and may be viewed in any order. The lectures here were created between the fall of 2002 and fall of 2003.

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SPEAKERS on Neurobiology of Stress, Fear and Anxiety

• Bruce S. McEwen, PhD - Rockefeller University, New York City, USA
  Does Stress Damage the Brain?
• Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD - New York University, New York City, USA
  Fear, Memory and the Brain
• Gregory J. Quirk, PhD - Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico
  Learning NOT to Fear: Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala and Extinction of Conditioned Fear
• Sumantra Chattarji, PhD - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
  Stress and Contrasting Patterns of Neural Plasticity in the Amygdala and Hippocampus
• David A. Silbersweig, MD & Emily Stern, MD - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
  Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Disorder
• Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD - New York University, New York City, USA
  Fear and the Human Amygdala

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