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  • New study links anxiety, the brain's orbitofrontal cortex, and optimism

    Sep 22, 2015 11:30 am by Diana YatesResearch
    image of psychology professor Florin Dolcos, graduate student Yifan Hu, and researcher Sanda Dolcos

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    • image of psychology professor Florin Dolcos, graduate student Yifan Hu, and researcher Sanda Dolcos

    The new analysis offers the first evidence that optimism plays a mediating role in the relationship between the size of the OFC and anxiety.