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December 9, 2004
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Looking at the brain as it looks at loss
Harvard's Ehmad Eskander studies a part of the brain - the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) - that plays a role in how a person perceives a loss and how that perception changes behavior. His subjects had had the ACC removed as a last-resort procedure to relieve otherwise untreatable mental disorders. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Class matters - and so does race
Vivian Louie looks at the myth of the 'model minority'
Appreciating loss, present and potential
How the brain compensates
Gore, Summers, McElroy to speak on global warming
'Climate Change: The Way Forward' to be held on Dec. 13
Climate change's public health effects to hit poorer nations
Warming called a global 'experiment' on planet Earth
Videoconference highlights neuroscience
Seeking the biology that underlies behavior
Subir Sachdev appointed FAS professor of physics
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