Sentences with phrase «nucleus accumbens while»
They monitored an electrode implanted in the man's nucleus accumbens while he performed a task in which he had to push a button when a visual target flashed on a screen to receive a cash reward.
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Then they would lie in a high - resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for a grueling 90 minutes while the machine took pictures in 2 - millimeter increments of their nucleus accumbens, a region deep in the brain that (among other things) controls reward and motivation.