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When participants in the study viewed photos of faces that looked angry or fearful, activity in the amygdala increased, but when the participants used words to name the observed emotions, activity in the amygdala decreased and activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex increased.
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Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
Laboratory studies using fMRI, which measures blood-oxygen levels in the brain, have suggested that when someone lies, the brain sends more blood to the ventrolateral area of the prefrontal cortex.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
Parts of the larger ventrolateral frontal cortex are implicated in conditions such as ADHD, drug addiction, and compulsive disorders.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2014
But an entirely different region, called the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, became active.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
The second area—cumbersomely dubbed the ventrolateral part of the ventromedial hypothalamus, or VMHvl—is associated with aggression.
—Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
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Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
Laboratory studies using fMRI, which measures blood-oxygen levels in the brain, have suggested that when someone lies, the brain sends more blood to the ventrolateral area of the prefrontal cortex.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
Parts of the larger ventrolateral frontal cortex are implicated in conditions such as ADHD, drug addiction, and compulsive disorders.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2014
But an entirely different region, called the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, became active.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
The second area—cumbersomely dubbed the ventrolateral part of the ventromedial hypothalamus, or VMHvl—is associated with aggression.
—Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2020
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“Ventrolateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ventrolateral. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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