The Anxious Brain and Doomsday Fear
January 5, 2010
Category: Anxiety & Fear, The Mind & Neuroscience
Some people are simply born to worry, and doomsday predictions like 2012 give them a target. Armand draws on Jerome Kagan’s landmark longitudinal study of infant temperament to show how a hyperreactive baby becomes an anxious adult, and explains how the amygdala drives fear that has no real object.