Word: panic
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...message and lets the amygdala know that it's O.K. to stand down. At least it's supposed to. It seems that it's harder to turn off a stress response than to turn it on. This makes sense, in terms of survival. After all, it's better to panic unnecessarily than to be too relaxed in the face of life-threatening danger...
...groups of identical twins, who share virtually all their genes, and fraternal twins, who, like any other siblings, share only some of them. What Kendler's group found was that both identical twins were somewhat more likely than both fraternal twins to suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, phobias or panic attacks. (The researchers have not yet studied twins with post-traumatic stress disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder...
...PANIC DISORDER...
...fall," Roach said. Up to now, everyone assumes the path will lead to a soft landing for the dollar, but that's not necessarily true. "The alternative, a hard landing, still keeps me awake at night," says Morgan Stanley's Roach. While there's no need to panic now, that's a fear that should be shared throughout Europe. Until the euro rises on its own strengths instead of on the dollar's weakness, the currency will fail to live up to the high hopes that accompanied its launch three years...
...dissemination leaked out, compounding the confusion. To make matters worse, besieged politicians and bureaucrats have started to overcompensate for past lapses by sharing more than necessary. "Now the feeling is 'When in doubt, put it out,'" says a U.S. counterterrorism official. And once the media and the public sniffed panic in the air, each warning took on a higher level of significance...