Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.This type of primitive reaction makes it harder to extinguish the fear of a close-up threat and more likely that you’ll have some long-term stress from the experience.Research has shown that traumatic events that touch the body, like rape and other physical assaults, are more strongly linked to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than are traumas viewed at some distance.Now, thanks to a clever adaptation that has placed study participants in a 3D virtual reality environment while their brains were being scanned by an MRI machine, researchers have seen just how the circuitry of those brain responses differ.“Clinically, people who develop PTSD are more likely to have experienced threats that.
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