Caltech neuroscientists discover brain area responsible for fear of losing money (page 2)
Finding offers neuroscientists insight into economic behaviorNeuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain?the amygdala.The finding, described in the latest online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers insight into economic behavior, and also into the role of the brain's amygdalae, two almond-shaped clusters of tissue located in the medial temporal lobes.
Caltech neuroscientists discover brain area responsible for fear of losing money
Neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money to a specific structure in the brain-the amygdala.
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Your Brain Has A Fear Of Losing Money
Finding offers neuroscientists insight into economic behaviorNeuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have tied the human aversion to losing money ...
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