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Brain Research
People with more activation in the dorsal [[ACC]], tend be more suspitable to PTSD<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21724666 Shin ML et al., Exaggerated activation of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during cognitive interference: a monozygotic twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder, 2011]</ref>. (May be the more fearful need to use their dACC to calculate different options?). Where as people with ADD, which promote liberalism showed reduced activation of what seems to be the d[[ACC]]<ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322399000839 Bush et al., Anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder revealed by fMRI and the counting stroop,1999]</ref>.The dACC active in conflict monitoring<ref>[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661304002657 Conflict monitoring and anteriorcingulatecortex: an update, 2004]</ref>, (and it may be that ADD will decide more impulsivly. But if they have stress, they (fear from failure) they will be unable to decide, as I have seen with my trainees [[User:WinSysop|Tal Yaron]] 08:31, 11 September 2012 (IDT)).
 
Liberals have more [[ACC]] volume whereas conservatives have more amygdala volume<ref>[http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(11)00289-2 Paper,, 2011]</ref>