Superior-Inferior/Stable-Unstable Hierarchy (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

Superior-Inferior/Stable-Unstable Hierarchy

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Brain activity was much higher in key brain centers when participants viewed a superior player in an unstable social hierarchy -- when participants had the possibility of upward mobility.

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Caroline Zink, Ph.D., NIMH Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program

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