Emotions ranging from the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat—this is an Olympic year, after all—engage structures throughout the brain that keep tabs on the body’s current status, such as a racing heartbeat, flushed cheeks, and churning guts. That, at least, is the implication of a study in the October Nature Neuroscience.
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