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The researchers pinpointed this activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, regions responsible for value judgments and reward prediction.
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Roger Dooley,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
The anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC, is a part of the brain involved in higher-level thinking and emotional processing.
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Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
Appearing on The Tonight Show, Isaacs was asked the reaction to his character’s accent and took the opportunity to make light of his full frontal moment.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2025
When the original deferred resignation offer arrived, many viewed it as a frontal assault on the federal bureaucracy.
The same year, Pope Francis rode around Ecuador in a white Jeep Wrangler, featuring a front glass roof with open sides, allowing the pontiff to easily wave from all sides.
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Greta Cross,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
Black drapes were unfurled near the front doors hours after his death.
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Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Apr. 2025
Elsewhere, the corset served as a blank canvas, bringing other trends to the fore like bow embellishments, colorful florals and Ren-fair references.
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Emily Mercer,
Footwear News,
23 Apr. 2025
When the waves and the reef’s natural slope combine, the mushroom corals are gradually pushed down to the fore reef area, which is generally a calmer, sandy seabed environment.
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