Let's Say That You Are Working for a Drug Company

question 164

Multiple Choice

Let's say that you are working for a drug company and you are trying to development a new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. If you could be very precise with the drug, which of the following brain areas would you try to reduce the activity in?

• A) frontal cortex
• B) left amygdala
• C) right amygdala
• D) left hippocampus
• E) hypothalamus

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