{"id":28331,"date":"2016-07-26T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T04:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/study-identifies-neural-circuits-involved-in-making-risky-decisions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:34","slug":"study-identifies-neural-circuits-involved-in-making-risky-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/study-identifies-neural-circuits-involved-in-making-risky-decisions","title":{"rendered":"Study identifies neural circuits involved in making risky decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-identifies-neural-circuits-involved-in-making-risky-decisions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research sheds light on what\u2019s going on inside our heads as we decide whether to take a risk or play it safe. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis located a region of the brain involved in decisions made under conditions of uncertainty, and identified some of the cells involved in the decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>The work, published July 27 in <i>The <i>Journal of Neuroscience<\/i><\/i>, could lead to treatments for psychological and psychiatric disorders that involve misjudging risk, such as problem gambling and anxiety disorders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know from human imaging studies that certain parts of the brain are more or less active in risk-seeking people, but the neural circuits involved are largely unknown,\u201d said Ilya Monosov, PhD, an assistant professor of neuroscience and senior author on the study. \u201cWe found a population of value-coding neurons that are specifically suppressed when animals make a risky choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-07-neural-circuits-involved-risky-decisions.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;07-neural-circuits-in...sions.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research sheds light on what\u2019s going on inside our heads as we decide whether to take a risk or play it safe. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis located a region of the brain involved in decisions made under conditions of uncertainty, and identified some of the cells involved in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66780,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions\/66780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}