Social anxiety, with Dr Ellen Hendriksen
Instant Genius
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What's Going on in Your Brain When You're Gripped by Social Anxiety?
The 99% of people that actually do experience social anxiety are not psychopaths or comatose. What's going on in your brain? What's happening in someone's brain when they're gripped by social anxiety? So picture us, Steve Martin, arrow through your head. Now draw two lines back from your eyeballs back through the back of your head. That's your amygdala. And your amygdala is part of a lot of different systems, but it's the linchpin of the fear system.
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