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543: R. Douglas Fields | Understanding Why We Snap

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The Brain's Threat Detection Mechanism

A huge part of our brain is devoted to threat detection. We all have this circuitr whether it gets tripped or not depends if you find yourself in one of these situations that trips one of these triggers. It's a little scary when you look at it like that, right? Because we think, well, this isn't going to happen to me or my family because everyone of my family's normal. My friends are all normal. I live in a nice neighborhood where people aren't not insane, there's no housing projects. And all these stereotypes of this doesn't happen in my area go out the window. When we look at this being a programme running in the back of everybody's

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