Scientists Have a Secret Weapon to Defeat Arachnophobia, And It's Hidden Inside You
Millions of people around the world are affected by arachnophobia – the unreasonable fear of spiders, which evidence suggests could be an innate human response embedded by evolution inside the brain. But while the fear may be a relic of an ancient survival mechanism, the anxiety it provokes is something most arachnophobes today would rather be free of. Now, an experimental new treatment could help grant their wish, courtesy of the pulse of their own beating hearts. Scientists