The children underwent M.R.I. brain scans while viewing pictures of happy, sad, fearful or neutral faces.
Mothers exhibited bilateral activation of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) while viewing pictures of their own versus unfamiliar infants.
One treatment has dictators viewing pictures of recipients, the second has recipients receiving pictures of dictators and the third is a pictureless control.
It offers support for viewing pictures inline, shortened link expansion, multiple Twitter accounts, and even some Facebook support.
Indeed, viewing pictures of a romantic partner was recently demonstrated to reduce experimental thermal pain.
Several BOLD activity decreases were also associated with viewing pictures of a romantic partner.
The first contrast identified neural activations and deactivations associated with viewing pictures of a romantic partner, while in pain, and controlling for both the effects of viewing pictures of an equally attractive acquaintance, and performing a distraction task.
As suggested by previous behavioral research, viewing pictures of a romantic partner effectively reduced self-reported pain [16].
A useful fMRI task for evaluating antiobesity drugs is viewing pictures of foods.
Specifically, lonely individuals show weaker activation in the ventral striatum when viewing pictures of pleasant social events than when viewing pleasant pictures of nonsocial objects, whereas this pattern is reversed for nonlonely individuals.
The study showed significant activation during self-related processing, whether subjects were viewing pictures of their own faces or other body parts (Devue et al. 2007).
