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which is a brain system that helps us process self-referential information. Other hot spots were the striatum and limbic network, which are involved in learning and how we respond to rewards.

An understanding of brain evolution may prove useful in the development of research in forensic psychology, including ...

As recently as the late 1980s the human brain was considered to be a sort ... more important to creativity may be the connections through the limbic system—the more primitive, emotional part ...

The electrodes and the sites of cannula infusion were verified in 60-μm frozen sections of the brain stained with ... of various areas in the limbic system enhances effects produced by general ...

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Then, we mapped the circuits connected to each lesion using the human connectome, a large-scale wiring diagram of the human brain. We then identified which connections were common to lesions that ...

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