WASHINGTON, Feb 9 – People are afraid to lose money and an unusual study released on Monday explains why – the brain’s fear centre controls the response to a gamble. The study of two women with brain lesions that made them unafraid to lose on a gamble showed the amygdala, the brain’s fear centre, activates at the very thought of losing money. The finding, reported in the Proceedings of the …

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