Unraveling Anhedonia
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When aesthetic pharmacology merges with clinical imaging: Julia Crone from the University of Vienna and her team in collaboration with Rupert Lanzenberger from the Medical University of Vienna are investigating how psychedelic drugs can help people who are not able to feel joy and excitement.
A joint research project between the disciplines of medicine and psychology: Julia Crone and her team want to find out how intense joy is represented in the brain. This structural MRI image is an example of how activity of specific brain networks can be visualized using fMRI. The colors show the different structures of the brain.
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