PREFERENTIAL NEURONAL RESPONSES TO SNAKES IN THE MONKEY MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX SUPPORT AN EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN FOR OPHIDIOPHOBIA

Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia

Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias.It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.Noninvasive imaging studies of patients with specific phobia reported that the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), especially the

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Women at Canossa. The role of royal and aristocratic women in the reconciliation between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV of Germany

Modern historians rarely mention the presence of royal and aristocratic women at Canossa in January 1077.Yet contemporaries emphasised the important roles berness white sneakers played by several women, including Matilda of Tuscany, Adelaide of Turin, Empress Agnes and Queen Bertha.This paper seeks to re-appraise royal and read more aristocratic wo

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