The fluttering feeling when under stress is both neurological and physical
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The physical sensation of stress, such as a fluttering feeling, arises from both neurological signaling and bodily autonomic activation.
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The paper discusses the gut-brain and heart-brain interfaces in reward processing and neuropsychiatric health, highlighting peripheral bodily signals.
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