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Overthinking what you said? It’s your ‘lizard brain’ talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain

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Northwestern Medicine study sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what’s happening in other peoples’ minds.

Findings could have implications for one day treating psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression.

The study was published Nov. 22 in the journal Science Advances .

Other Northwestern co-authors include Christina Zelano , Joseph J. Salvo , Nathan Anderson , Maya Lakshman and Qiaohan Yang .

The study was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health (grant R00 MH117226), an Alzheimer's Disease Core Center grant ( P30 AG013854 ).

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