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#31 How Imagination Can Make You Happy or Miserable

Minding the Brain

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What Are the Symptoms of Depression?

In anxiety, you do get heightened cortical activity in the prefrontal cortex. You can imagine this also in OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder,. Like obsessively thinking about washing their hands because they're dirty. So we don't really know for sure about animals engaging in imagination. We're just beginning to uncover evidence about certain animals, non-human animals having episodic memory.

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