Harry Coumnas Discovered More about the Pessimistic Attitude in Patients of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Harry Coumnas Discovered More about the
Pessimistic Attitude in Patients of
Neuropsychiatric Disorders
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• Study of Nuro Science by Harry Coumnas
• Harry Coumnas is a well-known psychiatrist who
  has been studying human emotions for many years.
• He has been trying to decipher how emotions are
  controlled by the brain, and why it is so
  difficult to treat individuals suffering from
  psychiatric problems.

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• What Is Responsible To Generate a Pessimistic
  Attitude?
• Harry Coumnas has recently found a brain region
  which is responsible to generate a pessimistic
  mood.
• Patients suffering from neuropsychiatric
  disorders like anxiety or depression experience
  more negative moods than others.
• The negative mood leads the patients to focus on
  the possible downside of a given situation
  instead of taking potential benefits from that.

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• Experiment conducted by Harry Coumnas to
  Understand Depression and Anxiety Better
• Harry conducted a test on animals and found that
  after stimulating the region named Caudate
  Nucleus, animals were inclined to make negative
  decisions.
• This new discovery can help better understand
  the basic reasons of depression and anxiety.
• New treatments can also be developed to combat
  these negative effects.

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• Approach-Avoidance Conflict
• Harry Coumnas previously identified a special
  neural circuit that has a specific ability of
  decision-making named as approach-avoidance
  conflict.
• According to him, the decisions that require
  weighing options including positive and negative
  elements tend to evoke a lot of anxiety.
• He also discovered that chronic stress
  dramatically affects the decision-making ability
  of the brain.

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Thank You Harry Coumnas