Sensaton Seeking and the Amygdala

For persons who score high on the dimension of sensation seeking, they persu ovolty despite of the cost of self-harm (Mujica-Parodi, Carlson, Cha, and Rubin, 2014). During fMRI participants performed the anticipation of aversive events task in which the aversive stimuli consisted of a 100 dB white noise and the good stimuli gave 55dB noise. It was found that highly trait anxious particpants exhibited prefrontal-limbic meso circuitry assymetry.