{"id":5248,"date":"2017-01-19T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:47:35","slug":"are-you-a-risk-taker-your-brain-structure-might-hold-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/are-you-a-risk-taker-your-brain-structure-might-hold-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a risk taker? Your brain structure might hold the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The older we get, the less likely we are to take risks &#8211; and this preference for familiar things may be caused by a change in our brain structures. A new study shows that risk aversion may be associated with an increase in grey matter in the right posterior parietal cortex. Researchers asked a group of people, ranging from 18 to 88-years-old, to make a decision in a task that involved gambling. As predicted, certain people were more likely to pick a safer option; but further analysis showed that it&#8217;s the grey matter in the parietal cortex, not age, that better predicted this outcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael A. Grubb, Agnieszka Tymula, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Paul W. Glimcher &amp; Ifat Levy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ifat Levy, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, Email: ifat.levy@yale.edu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms13822\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> on December 13, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The older we get, the less likely we are to take risks &#8211; and this preference for familiar things may be caused by a change in our brain structures. A new study shows that risk aversion may be associated with an increase in grey matter in the right posterior parietal cortex. Researchers asked a group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2805,2804,2803,2801,2802],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cognition","tag-decision-making","tag-decisions","tag-neuroanatomy","tag-risk-taking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1mE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}