Inside fear and its disorders
How do we explain the body's reaction to fearful situations? When faced with a perceived threat or a scary situation, the fight or flight response kicks in, and the brain’s hippocampus and prefrontal cortex regions help us decide our next move: Is this something that I should be genuinely fearful of or not? The “emotional” part of our brain communicates with the higher-level “thinking” part of our brain to make the final call.
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