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Researchers from Columbia University and the University of California, San Francisco recently isolated what’s called “anxiety cells” in the brains of mice. And then they used an algae-inspired light to control the animals’ minds. The researchers discovered the cells by sending laboratory mice through a series of anxiety-inducing trials and observing the electric signals occurring at the cellular level in specific areas of their brains. It was discovered the hippocampus, the emotion center of the brain, plays host to cells that lit up when the mice encountered an anxiety-inducing situation. To stress the animals, researchers placed wide open spaces in…

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