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A similar dose-dependent effect of beliefs was also found in the functional connectivity between the thalamus and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a brain region that is considered important for decision-making and belief states.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

The placebo effect increased activity in an area called the rostral ventromedial medulla, which relays pain information, and decreased activity in the periaqueductal gray, which helps the body suppress pain.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2021

The regions of the rat brain that showed an increase in dopamine release correspond to the human nucleus accumbens and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

From Nature • May 21, 2019

He did an experiment using decks of cards, first with students and then again with people who had suffered damage to the ventromedial sector of their prefrontal cortex.

From Time • Nov. 14, 2016

The ventromedial area plays a critical role in decision making.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell