Here's What Happens In Our Brains When We Get Scared
Planning on watching a scary movie or going out to a haunted
house on Thursday? In honor of Halloween we thought it would be
interesting to look at what actually happens in our brains when
we get scared.
talked with Abigail Marsh, professor of psychology at Georgetown
University, to find out how the brain processes fear.
We feel fear because we see or hear something that makes us
anticipate harm. Say you're walking through a haunted house this
Halloween and a spooky skeleton jumps out at you. That skeleton
acts as a stimulus that triggers a signal in your brain.
The signal travels to the amygdala — a region near the base of
the brain. The amygdala fires a brain chemical called glutamate
out into two other regions of the brain. The first region makes
us freeze or involuntarily jump. These reactions are so automatic
because the signal is sent deep into the base of the brain to an
area that we have little control over.
The second signal is sent to the hypothalamus and triggers our
autonomic nervous system — the system responsible for the fight
or flight instinct — when our bodies go into superman mode. It
elevates our heart rate and blood pressure and pumps adrenaline
throughout our bodies. That's the rush you feel when scared.
We experience fear in three stages:
1. Freeze. This is the evolutionary response
designed to keep us hidden from the potential predator we sense
2. Run away. If we've already been spotted, the
adrenaline coursing through our bodies helps us run away quickly.
3. Fight. If running away is no longer an
option, that same adrenaline helps us fight off — or at least try
to fight off — whatever threat we're facing.
If we aren't in a real life-threatening situation, luckily our
bodies have a quick way of reversing this fear response. The
parasympathetic nervous system is the counter to the fight or
flight instinct — it reverses the flood of adrenaline and lowers
our heart rate back to its normal state.
That's why every time we jump during a scary movie our bodies are
not suddenly coursing with adrenaline. After the initial reaction
our brains recognize the threat is not real and the
parasympathetic nervous system calms us down.
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Run far away and never return.
走开，永远也别回来。
Let's dash into the moonlight, run far away from this bloody smell of power.
让我们在月夜里消失吧，远远的离开这血腥的权力。
Adolescence is a period making people crazy , during which we want to run far away from our parents , follow our hearts , and do whatever we want , turning a deaf ear to what other people say.
青春期，是一个让人疯狂的时期，在这期间，我们想要离得父母远远的，追随自己的心意，做一切自己想做的，对别人所说的话置若惘闻。
The stakes for investors are far too high for the Feds to run away from the case against Cohen and SAC.
While the visiting team stopped in anticipation of the referee's whistle, Robben continued his run and lashed the ball into the far corner before turning away to celebrate.
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