Scared of the dark? Terrified of heights? Spiders make you scream? For the first time, a person’s lifelong phobia has been completely abolished overnight. Unfortunately, it required removing a tiny bit of the man’s brain, so for now, most people will have to find another way to dispel their fears. The phobia was abolished by accident. A 44-year-old business man started having seizures out of the blue. Brain scans showed he had an abnormality in his left amygdala – an area in the temporal lobe involved in emotional reactions, among other things. Further tests showed the cause was sarcoidosis, a rare condition that causes damage to the lungs, skin and, occasionally, the brain.
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