Anxiety and Fear from the Perspective of Cingulate Cortex

Anxiety and fear share similarities such as a feeling of unease and apprehension but the former is related to unpredictable threats with a distant time frame, while the latter is associated with short duration threats. This review considers these two entities from the perspective of cingulate cortex and shows that they activate different subregions; subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC)