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To: FourPeas
This could be useful in treating patients suffering from PTSD - such as soldiers who have been serving in conflict areas.

Why not just remove their amygdalas?

;-)

10 posted on 12/17/2010 11:32:05 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: WayneS

Or use acupuncture/pressure to block the transmitter.


13 posted on 12/17/2010 11:34:34 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: WayneS
If removing the amygdala helps with PTSD, there would be the complication of losing the "good" fear that helps humans stay out of truly dangerous situations.
14 posted on 12/17/2010 11:36:14 AM PST by FourPeas (From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Ja 3:10)
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