Editing Putamen (section)

==Role in "hate circuit"==
Tentative studies have suggested that the putamen may play a role in the so-called "[[Hatred|hate]] circuit" of the brain. A recent study was done by the department of cell and developmental biology at [[University College London]]. An [[fMRI]] was carried out on subjects while they viewed a picture of people they hated and people who were "neutral". During the experiment, a "hate score" was recorded for each picture. The activity in subcortical areas of the brain implied that the "hate circuit" involves the [[superior frontal gyrus]], the putamen and the [[insular cortex|insula]].<ref name="Tao">{{cite journal |last1=Tao |first1=H. |last2=Guo |first2=S. |last3=Ge |first3=T. |last4=Kendrick |first4=K. M. |last5=Xue |first5=Z. |last6=Liu |first6=Z. |last7=Feng |first7=J. |title=Depression uncouples brain hate circuit |journal=Molecular Psychiatry |date=January 2013 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=101–111 |doi=10.1038/mp.2011.127|pmc=3526729 }}</ref> It has been theorized that the "putamen plays a role in the perception of [[contempt]] and [[disgust]], and may be part of the [[motor system]] that's mobilized to take action." It was also found that the amount of activity in the hate circuit correlates with the amount of hate a person declares, which could have legal implications concerning malicious crimes.<ref name="Zeki">{{cite journal | journal = PLOS ONE | year = 2008 | volume = 3 | issue = 10 | pages = e3556 | title = Neural Correlates of Hate | editor1-first = Jan | editor1-last = Lauwereyns | author = Zeki S |author2=Romaya JP  | pmid = 18958169 | doi =10.1371/journal.pone.0003556 | pmc = 2569212 | bibcode = 2008PLoSO...3.3556Z | doi-access = free }}</ref>