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When Anxiety Shows Up In Your Gut
- Jud Brewer described GI distress from IBS that he first blamed on infection, not stress.
- He realized later that stress and anxiety manifested physically and required attention.
Anxiety Is Fear Plus Future Simulation
- Anxiety arises from a mash-up of fear and future simulation by the prefrontal cortex.
- When fear mixes with uncertainty the prefrontal cortex goes offline and anxiety impairs planning.
Anxiety As A Brain's Local Minimum
- Anxiety can be a local minimum that the brain gets stuck in, like an optimization problem.
- That stuck state becomes self-reinforcing and hard to dislodge without perturbation.