Brain-damaged woman feels no fear

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Brain-damaged woman feels no fear

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40702031/ns/he...-womens_health/


A 44-year-old woman who doesn't experience fear has led to the discovery of where that fright factor lives in the human brain.


Researchers put out their best foot to try to scare the patient, who they refer to as "SM" in their write-up in the most recent issue of the journal Current Biology. Haunted houses, where monsters tried to evoke an avoidance reaction, instead evoked curiosity; spiders and snakes didn't do the trick; and a battery of scary film clips entertained SM
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
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