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BRAIN STUDY REVEALS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FEARS TAKE HOLD

THERE’S AN EMERGING VIEW that psychiatric disorders are not due to chemical imbalances in the brain and instead are a disturbance in brain circuits. This perspective, neurobiologist David Anderson explained in a recent lecture, treats the emotional brain more like “a computer than a bowl of chemical soup.”