30: The Fear Factor with Abigail Marsh
Circle of Willis
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The Intuitive Response to Altruism
The classic line, you know, bravery isn't the absence of fear at all. Right? It's doing it despite. We have this sort of oxytocin story and a potential self-control story. But that gets complicated too, because one of the things... I don't know if Marco Yacoboni's work with TMS is that when he actually disrupts self-regulatory prefrontal cortex activity, people behave more altruistically. That altruism is actually, for most people, that is the intuitive response.
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