What If You Could Never Feel Fear?

What if your brain could never feel fear? You pick up a snake, a tarantula crawls up your arm, and when a researcher asks you to rate your fear from 0 to 10, you say zero. Then we push it as far as it goes, and find the price nobody warns you about. This is based on a real person. A woman known as S.M. lost both amygdalae to a rare disease called Urbach-Wiethe, and researchers spent decades studying how she lives with no fear alarm. The danger meter starts at Probably Fine. Where does it end? CHAPTERS 0:00 The Snake Shop 0:42 Where Fear Comes From 1:12 How Far Can You Push It? 2:01 The Price 2:48 3 A.M. Hotel Fire 3:54 One Breath What would you do first with a brain that can't feel fear? Tell me in the comments. And if you would have gone up those stairs, hit like. Next up: what happens when you take that breath. Subscribe to ProbablyFineDoodles for a new "what actually happens if..." every week. SOURCES Feinstein et al. (2011), "The human amygdala and the induction and experience of fear," Current Biology Feinstein et al. (2013), "Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage," Nature Neuroscience Patient S.M.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient.... National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc... #whatif #fear #psychology #animation #probablyfinedoodlesWhat if your brain could never feel fear? You pick up a snake, a tarantula crawls up your arm, and when a researcher asks you to rate your fear from 0 to 10, you say zero. Then we push it as far as it goes, and find the price nobody warns you about. This is based on a real person. A woman known as S.M. lost both amygdalae to a rare disease called Urbach-Wiethe, and researchers spent decades studying how she lives with no fear alarm. The danger meter starts at Probably Fine. Where does it end? CHAPTERS 0:00 The Snake Shop 0:42 Where Fear Comes From 1:12 How Far Can You Push It? 2:01 The Price 2:48 3 A.M. Hotel Fire 3:54 One Breath What would you do first with a brain that can't feel fear? Tell me in the comments. And if you would have gone up those stairs, hit like. Next up: what happens when you take that breath. Subscribe to ProbablyFineDoodles for a new "what actually happens if..." every week. SOURCES Feinstein et al. (2011), "The human amygdala and the induction and experience of fear," Current Biology Feinstein et al. (2013), "Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage," Nature Neuroscience Patient S.M.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient.... National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc... #whatif #fear #psychology #animation #probablyfinedoodles