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'Worry' Spot in Brain Found
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 Still, expanded knowledge about that particular brain region could lead to better treatments for anxiety and help researchers predict who might do a better job of handling stress, Miranda said.
Samanez-Larkin said the research could also be used to detect people who are most likely to get too many credit cards and fall into debt or fall victim to scams, because they aren't adept at processing financial information. "You could identify people who are susceptible to things like this and try to help them," he said.
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Last updated 4/11/2008
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SOURCES: Gregory Samanez-Larkin, graduate student, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.; Rajesh C. Miranda, Ph.D., associate professor, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station; April 2008, Psychological Science
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