Neuroscience and Fear: How Terror Hijacks the Brain

Maia Szalavitz:

'When the brain is under severe threat, it immediately changes the way it processes information, and starts to prioritize rapid responses. "The normal long pathways through the orbitofrontal cortex, where people evaluate situations in a logical and conscious fashion and [consider] the risks and benefits of different behaviors— that gets short circuited," says Dr. Eric Hollander, professor of psychiatry at Montefiore/Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Instead, he says, "You have sensory input right through the sensory [regions] and into the amygdala or limbic system."'

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