Discovering Which Part of the Brain Does Not Let Us Risk

Just after an intensive dialogue between his two hemispheres, the brain decides whether to choose a risk or not, ranging from the poker game to a battlefield, according to a study published in the American Academy of Sciences magazine (PNAS), from the “researchers group Johns Hopkins University” co-ordinated by Sridevirma Saderma and Pierre Sacre.

When betting, if you continue or stop is the results of previous victories and feelings related to what you gather.

“There is a trend that develops over time that makes people see danger differently”, researchers point out.

To understand why individuals tend to cope with the danger when circumstances appear to be an escape when circumstances seem favourable, researchers have involved patients with epileplepsy spread out in a Cleveland clinic, analyzing their cerbral activity while challenging their computer in a card game.

Using the electrodes placed previously in the brain to study the origin of seizures, researchers have been able to build their decisions in real time, revealing that their choices correspond to past experiences.

When the right hemisphere has a high-frequency activity and you have to bet, then you aim to play more. If the activity is on the left side, it is intended not to be jeopardised”, Sacre says.

<x) In short, what happens at the end affects more than what happened before, and based on the history of the bets, it can be predicted how the person feels at the moment of betting”, notes Pierre Sacre