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Studies have found that gamers have an enlarged cingulate gyrus in the brain.

The ACC, or anterior cingulate cortex, is held to be responsible for empathy.

The best we can do is look at various activation patterns in the anterior cingulate cortex and wonder.

There are lots of reports along the lines of that famous one - "the brain's love centre lights up when your iPhone rings" - when they're talking about the anterior cingulate cortex.

But maybe only 5% of that time consisted of excising glioblastomas from the anterior cingulate cortex.

This caught my eye:>In operations performed to relieve chronic pain, doctors have lesioned, or disabled, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.

For example, in a cognitive control task you are going to see presupplemental motor area, dorsal anterior cingulate, anterior insula, and so on.

Every time you meditate, you use two important parts of your brain: the prefrontal cortex, which helps you make smart choices, and the anterior cingulate cortex, which helps you be aware of when you make such choices and when you don't.

Looking at this:"Dancing compared to conventional fitness activity led to larger volume increases in more brain areas, including the cingulate cortex, insula, corpus callosum and sensorimotor cortex.

>Paradoxically, we found that fathers who activate the anterior cingulate the most when listening to infant crying report the most negative emotional responses to those cries, in particular being more likely to label the cry as spoiled or manipulative.

>In conclusion, SV2A levels are significantly lower in the FC and ACC in schizophrenia, and antipsychotic drug exposure at clinically relevant doses does not significantly alter SV2A levels or [3H]UCB-J-specific binding in the prefrontal and cingulate cortices of naïve rats.

Another study out of the University of Oregon last year used MRI to show similar results, but in as little as 6 hours of training:"The changes were strongest in connections involving the anterior cingulate, a brain area related to the ability to regulate emotions and behavior.

Significantly thinner cortical thickness was found in the posterior regions of the brain, located in the parietal and occipital areas, including the postcentral cortex, inferior parietal cortex, middle occipital cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.

[1] "The identified variables were age, PCL:YV Factor 1, PCL:YV Factor 2, years of regular substance use, total number of convictions, ICU, SES, brain volume, left and right lateral orbital frontal cortex, medial orbital frontal cortex, anterior and posterior cingulate, right temporal pole, and right and left parahippocampal cortex.

We tested the hypothesis that these profiles relate to differences in general neurocognitive functioning using event-related potentials, and found that greater liberalism was associated with stronger conflict-related anterior cingulate activity, suggesting greater neurocognitive sensitivity to cues for altering a habitual response pattern.