מחקרים

Question 1

Meta-analysis of multiple disorders (lesson 1)

Answer 1

Common neurobiological substrate
Only depression and schizophrenia were found to be distinctive from other disorders
All have grey matter loss in dACC and right and left insula (grey matter is cell bodies - receives information)

Question 2

Stress military (lesson 2)

Answer 2

PFC and HC disrupted connection
Less volume in HC and HC-vmPFC -> PTSD

Question 3

Drug relapse prediction - Delay Discounting Task (Lesson 3)

Answer 3

Impulsive decision making
Both behavioural and fMRI sessions.
Results:
1. Drug addicts exhibit elevated impulsive behavior compared to healthy controls
2. Higher ACC activation during impulsive decision making is associated with reduced tendency to act in an impulsive manner. In other words, negative correlation with ACC during impulsive behaviour.