A report on Anxiety and Emotion

Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.

Fear is closely related to the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the result of threats that are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable.

Psychological trauma or mental trauma is an emotional response to a distressing event or series of events, such as accidents, rape or natural disasters.

Triggers and cues act as reminders of the trauma and can cause anxiety and other associated emotions.

Joseph E. LeDoux (born December 7, 1949) is an American neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety.

Embarrassment or awkwardness is an emotional state that is associated with mild to severe levels of discomfort, and which is usually experienced when someone commits (or thinks of) a socially unacceptable or frowned-upon act that is witnessed by or revealed to others.

Personal embarrassment is usually accompanied by some combination of blushing, sweating, nervousness, stammering, and fidgeting.

Shown to perform a primary role in the processing of memory, decision making, and emotional responses (including fear, anxiety, and aggression), the amygdalae are considered part of the limbic system.

There may also be a link between the amygdala and anxiety.