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Brave or reckless? Thrill-seekers’ brains can tell you

 
“‘It really has to do with the reckless and the brave,’ says Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University, New York, who wasn’t involved with the work. The brave feel fear but are able to overcome it, whereas the reckless seem to have a brain that doesn’t react as it should to alert them to danger, he says.”