A Signal of Optimism in the Brain (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

A Signal of Optimism in the Brain

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Glass half full or half empty? What you see may depend in part on the size of your orbitofrontal cortex. Optimistic people also tend to be less anxious, research finds.

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