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Risk and Reward Compete in Brain
October 9, 2008
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An imaging study followed up on previous lesion studies to pinpoint regions of the brain involved in risk management. The study found that individuals' response to risk and reward can be gauged from activity in two distinct brain regions.Full StorySource
University of Southern California
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