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The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux calls the pathway to the amygdala “the low road,” which is extremely fast, and that to the frontal cortex the “high road,” which takes several milliseconds longer in the midst of an overwhelmingly threatening experience.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
1953 article published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Tom Michaud • Injury-Free Running, Second Edition: Your Illustrated Guide to Biomechanics, Gait Analysis, and Injury Prevention
SURGERY A surgeon’s first instinct when he sees a patient with a tumor is to reach for his scalpel and carve it out of them. This makes it easy to assume patients are benefitting from this kind of treatment, but removal of a tumor isn’t simply a local phenomenon with no other biological consequences. Although surgical removal of a tumor is widely a
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