Findings may lead to promising ways to treat and study neuropsychiatric disorders
News Writer:
Marcus Woo
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and—as researchers have now shown—in the brain as well.
The researchers, led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have used a well-known, noninvasive technique to electrically stimulate a specific region deep inside the brain previously thought to be inaccessible. The stimulation, the scientists say, caused volunteers to judge faces as more attractive than before their brains were stimulated.