For my research paper, I decided to write about the brain and the way in which it processes fear.
Best Sources of Information:
- Thalamus
- decides where sensory info needs to go
- Sensory cortex
- interprets data and decides what is happening
- Hippocampus
- where memories are stored for future reference
- Amygdala
- detects if a threat is present
- Hypothalamus
- activates fight or flight
- History
- Effects of feeling no fear
Best Sources of Information:
- Christie Aschwanden's article "The Curious Lives of the People Who Feel No Fear" in New Scientist
- Urbach-Wiethe Disease
- Julia Layton's article "How Fear Works" on HowStuffWorks.com
- Fear process