00:00You can usually feel the moment fear inhabits your body.
00:04Your heart gets stuck in your throat or butterflies cause havoc in your stomach.
00:08But there may be more to that gut feeling than you think.
00:11A psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Arash Jabenbacht,
00:15discovers research and remedies behind how fear works in the brain and body.
00:20Science Alert reports,
00:21Emotions originate in the brain, but it's your body that carries out the orders.
00:25And a few key areas of your brain are particularly integral in processing fear.
00:31Initially, sensory inputs of threat detection are first relayed to the amygdala,
00:36which can bypass logical thinking to fast-track often physical reactions.
00:41Located above your eyes is your prefrontal cortex,
00:44which is mostly involved in the cognitive and social aspects of fear processing.
00:49This part of the brain also labels and names physical sensations
00:53that attribute cognitive value to them.
00:56Perhaps you are feeling tightness or a pain in your stomach.
00:59The site confirms all bodily sensations are relayed back to the brain
01:04through the pathways via the spinal cord.
01:07When and if your brain decides that fear is justified,
01:11neuronal and hormonal pathways are activated
01:14to what some may know as a fight-or-flight response.
01:18We should visit these algorithms like we have reached out to the amygdala.
01:20Our Japanese萬ayor İyi Kon's
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