A recent study offers some insight into the treatment of panic attacks. The subjects of the study were individuals who had suffered brain damage in the amygdala which governs fear response. Although some researchers had assumed that the subjects would not panic when tested, just the opposite proved true. The conclusion of one scientist is that while the amygdala allows us to respond with fear to external attacks, there is a different part of the brain that governs internal experiences like heart attacks or apparent suffocation. The researchers found that one important aspect of the study was how strongly the subjects with damaged amygdala reacted to internal fear stimuli. Read the entire article here: Study Discovers Internal Trigger for Panic Attack in the Previously Fearless
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