Everyone knows someone — or maybe is that person — who shuts their eyes tight during the scary parts of a horror film and forces their friend to go first in the haunted house. Others avoid scary movies and haunted houses altogether during Halloween. In a study published in August, a team at the University of Colorado Boulder studied how people’s brains respond to threats and fear. Brain cells in the interpeduncular nucleus glow green in a mouse s brain after a shadow appears on the ceiling. (Photo courtesy of CU Boulder) The...
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Scary movies and haunted houses: Researchers study how the brain responds to fear
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