The brain activity also occurred in the putamen and insula, two areas activated when people viewed the face of a loved person.

“憎恨回路”中的壳核和脑岛两个区域在人们看到喜欢的人时也会活动。

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But he said damage to the insula does seem to destroy a necessary link in the smoking addiction.

但他说，脑岛的损坏也不像是毁坏了与烟瘾的必要关联。

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Scientists believe the insula, described as a "platform for feelings and emotion", may be also linked to other addictive behaviours including drugs, alcohol and excessive eating.

科学家相信，被描绘成感觉和情绪的操纵台的脑岛可能也和其它的成瘾行为如药品成瘾，酒精成瘾和进食过量有关。

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What you see in the insula conversely is when people see a price that they think is excessive You see an increase in that activation and that predicts they are not going to buy the product.

而相反，岛叶部分活动代表,受试者认为价格偏高,这种活动的增多意味着受试者不会做出购买选择。

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Stanford University researchers have suggested that a lack of response to emotionally meaningful information in the insula, a brain region at the hub of the salience network, can lead to a cascade of effects that result in inappropriate emotional displays.

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Activity was also elevated in the insula, a region that monitors one's emotional and physical state (it's also involved in disgust, shame and other strong negative emotions).

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The reason for this, the UCLA life scientists found, seems to be that a brain region called the anterior insula, which is linked to disgust and is important for discerning untrustworthy faces, is less active in older adults.

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