In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight response. George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut ...

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In haunted houses across the country each Halloween season, threatening figures jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors — wide-eyed and heart racing —to instinctively freeze and flee.

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I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...

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