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Caption: As they played games in the MRI scanner, pictures with rankings of other players and updated outcomes periodically flashed on the screen. Situations that could signal a fall in status activated circuitry known to process emotional pain and frustration.
Credit: Caroline Zink, Ph.D., NIMH Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program
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