Waiting for Pleasure (IMAGE)

McGill University

Waiting for Pleasure

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Yogita Chudasama is interested in how we make decisions. She has discovered that when it comes to decisions involving delayed gratification the hippocampus (associated with memory) and the nucleus accumbens (associated with pleasure) work together.

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McGill University

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