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The bit of your brain that signals how bad things could be

By Guest PostAugust 17, 2014Healthbit, brain scans, ethische richtlinien, first time marijuana, fmri scanner, hermann mitterhofer, negative events, painful electric shocks, pia andreatta, prediction, richard miech, signal, track, trauma begegnen, traumapaedagogik, ucl, wrestling

An evolutionarily ancient and tiny part of the brain tracks expectations about nasty events, finds new UCL research funded by the Medical Research Council.

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates for the first time that the human habenula, half the size of a pea, tracks predictions about negative events, like painful electric shocks, suggesting a role in learning from bad experiences. (more…)

Brain Scans Show We Take Risks Because We Can’t Stop Ourselves

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2014Healthadhd, austin, balloon analogue, bart, brain activity, brain scans, developing an addiction, drunk driving, executive function, external factor, health relevant, hunger, lack of sleep, magnetic resonance imaging, make decision, mri, patterns of activity, peer pressure, risk task, risky behavior, risky decisions, russell poldrack, sarah helfinstein, scanner, take risks, university of texas, unprotected sex, unsafe sex, video game

AUSTIN, Texas — A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it’s probably not because their brains’ desire systems are too active, but because their self-control systems are not active enough.

This might have implications for how health experts treat mental illness and addiction or how the legal system assesses a criminal’s likelihood of committing another crime. (more…)

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The bit of your brain that signals how bad things could be

Brain Scans Show We Take Risks Because We Can’t Stop Ourselves

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