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...most tolerant among us. Several studies find that even when we erase prejudice from our conscious mental processing, it lingers in the older, murkier corners of our cognitive architecture. In one experiment, researchers discovered that even subjects who demonstrated no racist attitudes still had increased activity in the amygdala??a part of the brain associated with fear and emotion—when shown images of black faces, and the results of implicit association tests consistently demonstrate that even progressive whites have more difficulty grouping images of African-Americans with positive adjectives than with negative ones. It turns...
...point for research in psychiatric medicine. “Stathmin is a protein that is also found in human beings,” said Bolshakov, who worked on the study. The protein was identified by the same group in an earlier study as playing a key role in the amygdala??a part of the brain that is associated with fear and is important for memory. Stathmin’s apparent role in both learned and innate fear suggests that a drug can be created to reduce stathmin activity in the amygdala of humans. According to Bolshakov, creating such...
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