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Study Discovers Internal Trigger for Panic Attack in the Previously Fearless

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We recently read a very interesting article in the New York Times about a study of a woman who was apparently fearless but has suffered a panic attack despite lacking a functioning amygdala, an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain long known to process fear.

We will look at this further in our summer issue of Anxious Times.

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