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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
Scott Stossel
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Scott Stossel
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 7
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Scott Hanford Stossel
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