Wohlhabendere Männer weisen einen höheren Stoffwechsel in Gehirnregionen auf, die Belohnung und Stress steuern. Ein höheres Familieneinkommen war mit einer erhöhten neuronalen Aktivität in den Regionen Caudat, Putamen, Anterior Cingulat, Hippocampus und Amygdala des Gehirns von Männern mittleren Alters verbunden.
Wealthier men show higher metabolism in brain regions controlling reward and stress
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**Wealthier men show higher metabolism in brain regions controlling reward and stress**
An analysis of positron emission tomography data in Korea found that **higher family income was associated with increased neural activity (estimated through increased glucose metabolism) in the caudate, putamen, anterior cingulate, hippocampus, and amygdala regions of the brain of middle-aged men**. These areas of the brain are involved in reward processing and stress regulation. The paper was published in the European Journal of Neuroscience.
Results showed that individuals with higher family income tended to have a higher education level. Higher family income was also associated with increased glucose metabolism in the caudate, putamen, anterior cingulate, hippocampus, and amygdala regions of the brain.
This means that neural activity in these regions was higher in individuals with higher family income. These regions of the brain are involved in reward processing and stress regulation. Interestingly, education level was not associated with brain activity patterns.
“Family income and education level show differential associations with brain glucose metabolism in middle-aged males. Family income is associated with elevated brain glucose metabolism in regions involved in reward processing and stress regulation, suggesting a potential link between current socioeconomic resources and neural activity. However, these findings are cross-sectional and must be interpreted as associative rather than causal. Education level does not show a significant association with brain glucose metabolism,” the study authors concluded.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70303
Which is the part of the brain that makes them want to fiddle kids and punch the poor while taking their wallets?
The neurology of greed
I wonder how much this has to do with access to more/healthier food. Coming from a wealthy family means you’re going to have more fresh fruits and vegetables. You can see how it has a marked impact on the body, look at North Koreans vs South Koreans. Last study I saw, said NKs are 1-3 inches shorter than SKs. I’d imagine that would be true for the brain as well.
I can see people using a eugenics conclusion of „See? Rich people just have better stress management and reward seeking pathways that make them more wealthy“ when it can just as easily be used backwards: Poorer people undergo much more life stress and damage to executive function
I can see people using a eugenics conclusion of „See? Rich people just have better stress management and reward seeking pathways that make them more wealthy“ when it can just as easily be used backwards: Poorer people undergo much more life stress and damage to executive function
Don’t get it twisted…. Income is related to stress.
Successful high-earners develop skills to better manage.
This could just mean that the higher earners have more stressful jobs and their brains spend more effort regulating that stress.
I keep telling my therapist that if I didn’t have zero dollars at all times, I would be happier, and she constantly tries to deny me that fact.
I do want to point out there was a (just) deleted comment from a person, who trades stocks, that said “a lot of poor people in this thread.”
So, little dash of sociopathy too.
How do I get one of these tests run on me? Who would you go to? Would they let you pay out of pocket? Would it be in the couple thousands or even more? I want to know why everything’s so hard for me.
Kind or reminds me of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The whole needing a sense of security before one can go about self-actualizing.
The question is now the chicken or the egg.
Does having success/money cause these changes?
Or do people with higher neuronal activity in these areas lead them to have higher motivation and intelligence, so they went on to make more money?
I’d argue probably the second one but who knows
I’m pretty sure those parts of my brain show almost no activity.
I’m pretty sure those parts of my brain show almost no activity.
Less social defeat related PDYN expression dynorphin , a brake on neural activity and thus generation of metabolites?