What makes you feel fear?

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:04:53 +0000

In shorthand often used to describe the brain, fear is controlled by a small, almond-shaped structure called the amygdala.

But it's not quite that simple, as a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience demonstrates.

One of the best ways to figure out how parts of the brain work is to study people who have damage in those specific areas.

Microsoft co-founder puts $300 million into 'brain observatories'

Keith Seinfeld — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:30:00 +0000

Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, is more than doubling his investment in unraveling mysteries of the brain – and bringing some of America’s top scientists to a new lab in Seattle. They say they're building "brain observatories," where they hope to answer big questions about how the mind works.

They'll peer inside the brain, similar to how groups of astronomers gather at major observatories to peer into the stars for answers about the formation of the universe.

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What makes you feel fear?

Microsoft co-founder puts $300 million into 'brain observatories'