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And this region, the
regions
within the limbic system, have been found to be hypersensitive to the rewarding feeling of risk-taking in adolescents compared with adults, and at the very same time, the prefrontal cortex, which you can see in blue in the slide here, which stops us taking excessive risks, is still very much in development in adolescents.
What we found was that in
regions
in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more votes.
And also we were able, with this sample, to look across the world, in 121 different countries we asked the same questions, and as you can see, this is 121 countries collapsed into 10 different geographical
regions.
And we found activity in a lot of brain
regions.
Also supporting it is the fact that we today see eruptions of violence in zones of anarchy, in failed states, collapsed empires, frontier regions, mafias, street gangs and so on.
One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote
regions
of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater.
So a typical cell, like the neurons in our brain, has a region called the dendrites that receives input, and that input sums together and will produce action potentials that run down the axon and then activate all the output
regions
of the neuron.
Rather, it's acting to control two different functions on two different circuits, so the reason there are two things wrong with our dopamine receptor flies is that the same receptor is controlling two different functions in two different
regions
of the brain.
What we need to do is to use our ingenuity and our scientific knowledge to try to design a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific
regions
of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders.
And you see activity in some
regions
we've seen today, medial prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial, however, up here, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, an area that's involved in lots of types of conflict resolution, like if you're playing "Simon Says," and also the right and left temporoparietal junction.
Remember that we scanned both brains at the same time, so we can ask about time-synced activity in similar or different areas simultaneously, just like if you wanted to study a conversation and you were scanning two people talking to each other and you'd expect common activity in language
regions
when they're actually kind of listening and communicating.
So the arrows connect
regions
that are active at the same time, and the direction of the arrows flows from the region that's active first in time, and the arrowhead goes to the region that's active later.
And what you see is bright and dark regions, and that's about as far as it got for us.
And obviously, it landed in one of these flat, dark
regions
and it didn't sink out of sight.
So again, it got puzzling that there were no bodies of fluid, until finally, we saw lakes in the polar
regions.
If you were to just completely ignore human ethics for a second and slice up my brain right now, you would see that there was an amazing number of brain
regions
that were active while recalling that memory.
The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these
regions.
It will stop them from doing simple, back-to-back, limited arbitrage to really thinking strategically about how to move grain across long distances from [surplus regions] to [deficit areas].
That’s likely because they activate receptors in a broad range of brain areas, including the cortical
regions
for all the senses.
Sex lies at the heart of an emerging epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa, which is one of only two
regions
in the world where HIV/AIDS is still on the rise.
And it's that diversity of gene pools that makes it possible for them to dominate these large
regions
of the oceans and maintain their stability year in and year out.
And then the same two species of monkey in the zoo are converging, so their microbiomes change and they become much more similar to each other, even though these are zoos on different continents, different geographical regions, and they're eating different diets.
All you can do with brain imaging is watch
regions
turn on and off as people think different thoughts.
Next, I'll go through much more quickly some of the other specialized
regions
of the brain that we and others have found.
Just to the right of that is another region that is shown in purple that responds when you process color information, and near those
regions
are other
regions
that are involved in perceiving places, like right now, I'm seeing this layout of space around me and these
regions
in green right there are really active.
There's another one out on the outside surface again where there's a couple more face
regions
as well.
Now all these
regions
I've shown you so far are involved in specific aspects of visual perception.
Do we also have specialized brain
regions
for other senses, like hearing?
Next to the pitch region is another set of
regions
that are selectively responsive when you hear the sounds of speech.
Okay, now let's look at these same
regions.
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