Anxiety as Reprocessed Fear: A Neurocortical Model Based on the Interaction Between Consciousness and the Brain
This article presents a novel theoretical framework suggesting that anxiety is a reprocessed form of fear. While fear originates as an immediate, survival-based reaction in the amygdala, it becomes significantly modified when it enters the neocortex. There, it is reconstructed through meaning-making, memory integration, and future-based predictions. In this model, anxiety emerges as the combination … Read more