To flee or not to flee: how the brain decides what to do in the face of danger
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 07:20
in Biology & Nature
Though it has been many millennia since human lives were regularly threatened by predatory wild animals, the brain circuits that ensured our survival then are still very much alive within us today. “Just like any other animal in nature, our reaction to a threat is invariably one of the following three: escape, fight, or freeze […]