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Brain's Fear Center Is Equipped With A Built-In Suffocation Sensor

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The portion of our brains that is responsible for registering fear and even panic has a built-in chemical sensor that is triggered by a primordial terror - suffocation. A report in the November 25th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, shows in studies of mice that the rise in acid levels in the brain upon breathing carbon dioxide triggers acid-sensing channels that evoke fear behavior. (original story)

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