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Cold War Repair 010: The Neuroscience of the Cold War — Brain Mechanisms Behind Silence and Withdrawal

Every cold war between intimate partners is simultaneously a neurobiological event. Behind the surface behavior of silence and withdrawal lies a cascade of neural activity — the a…

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In the context of intimate relationship conflict, the amygdala can be activated by a range of stimuli that the brain interprets as threatening: a partner's angry tone, a critical…

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