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Researchers identify brain area where stress originates

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Researchers have identified a neural area of the feeling of stress people experience. This discovery may help people deal with the sense of fear and anxiety that stress can evoke. Brain scans of people exposed to highly stressful and troubling images have revealed a network of neural connections emanating throughout the brain from the hippocampus, an area that helps regulate motivation, emotion and memory.