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What causes fainting? Scientists finally have an answer
![A painting of a young woman in Georgian clothing fainting in a theatre box, surrounded by anxious people.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-023-03450-3/d41586-023-03450-3_26250094.jpg)
The Effect of Melodrama (1830) by Louis Leopold Boilly. The precise mechanisms that control how and why people faint have long puzzled scientists. Credit: Leemage/Corbis via Getty
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03450-3
References
Lovelace, J. W. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06680-7 (2023).