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          ·April 20, 2022·5 min read

          Explore or Exploit: How Our Brains Make Choices

          Study explores brain activity in primates and humans when presented with a choice between one option that maximizes information and another which prioritizes reward during decision making.
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          ·January 11, 2012·3 min read

          Study Offers Clue As to Why Alcohol is Addicting

          UCSF Gallo scientists show that drinking releases brain endorphins Drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of...
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          ·August 21, 2018·3 min read

          Beauty is Simpler, and Less Special, Than We Realize

          Analyzing the work of great philosophers and recent neuroscience research, researchers conclude certain simple features, such as symmetry and roundness, make things more attractive to us.
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          ·October 17, 2016·5 min read

          Why Risk Taking Behavior Increases During Adolescence

          Researchers uncover a casual relationship between behavioral control and a specific imbalance in brain function that exists during adolescence.
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          ·June 27, 2019·5 min read

          Brain structure determines individual differences regarding music sensitivity

          White matter connectivity between the auditory processing areas and brain areas associated with reward may explain why we like, or dislike music.
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          ·July 11, 2017·4 min read

          Depression Affects Male and Female Brains Differently

          Exposing depressed adolescents to positive and negative words elicited different effects in specific brain regions depending on the sex of the subject, a new Frontiers in Psychiatry study reports.
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          ·October 29, 2019·3 min read

          Distinct brain region alterations in youth with psychosis spectrum disorders

          Teens with psychosis spectrum disorders have significantly reduced surface areas in the orbitofrontal cortex, cingulate, precentral, and postcentral brain regions. MRI scans also revealed decreased thalamic volume.
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          ·December 1, 2018·7 min read

          Early Life Stress Hinders Neuron Development, Causing Attention Disorders: Mouse Study

          Female mice who experienced early life stress developed problems and had fewer neurons in areas of the brain responsible for regulating emotions and making sense of rules, researchers report.
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          ·July 13, 2020·3 min read

          Rats’ Brain Activity Reveals Their Alcohol Preference

          Study reveals the role the orbitofrontal cortex plays in individual differences to alcohol preference. The findings shed new light on how some are more prone to alcohol use disorder than others.
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          ·June 6, 2016·3 min read

          How Long Term Marijuana Use Alters the Brain’s Reward Circuit

          Researchers report chronic marijuana users show more brain activity in the mesocorticolimbic reward system when presented with cannabis cues than with natural reward cues.
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          ·June 15, 2016·4 min read

          Map of Teenage Brain Provides Evidence of Link Between Antisocial Behavior and Brain Development

          A new neuroimaging study reports teens with serious antisocial behavioral problems have significant differences in brain structure than their peers.
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          ·May 26, 2016·4 min read

          How the Brain Makes and Breaks Habits

          Researchers report they have identified a neural pathway involved in switching between habitual behavior and deliberate decision making.
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