A study is published in the journal Brain and Cognition has revealed how the feeling of fear originates in the brain when people are exposed to threatening images. Researchers from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas mapped brain activity in 26 adults (19 female 7 male) aged 19-30 years. They were shown 224 randomised images that were either unidentifiably scrambled or real pictures. Real pictures were separated into two categories: threatening (weapons combat nature or animals) and non-threatening (pleasant situations food nature or animals). The participants were made to wear an EEG cap and were