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Summary: A new study shows that brain activity in small groups can predict large-scale decision-making. Using fMRI, researchers found that activity in the Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) during initial ...

Neuroimaging can capture brain activity in response to stimuli before a person decides how to respond. Initial affective responses—broadly good or bad feelings about a stimulus—have been associated ...

enabling us to identify and manipulate an active astrocytic ensemble in the posterior-ventral region of the Nucleus Accumbens (NAc) in mice," said Navarrete. "Our findings demonstrate that ...

2002c). Recordings were made in the medial ventral accumbens core close to the anterior commissure (Robbe et al., 2002c). A −2 mV hyperpolarizing pulse was applied before each evoked EPSC in order to ...