Medicine: Lina & the Brain
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Lina Stern thinks her theory probably also explains the physiology of anger. An angry man, she notes, sometimes calms down all of a sudden. Why? When anger-stimulating adrenalin in the blood passes a certain concentration, it breaks through the hematoencephalic barrier into the brain, reverses its effect: the barrier thus serves as a sort of safety valve. Says Stern: "It keeps a man from—what do you say?—from blowing his top."
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