Summary: A new study identifies a brain activity pattern that signals self-preoccupied thinking, a trait associated with anxiety and depression. In experiments, the pattern appeared during mental breaks and predicted when people would soon turn their thoughts inward. Analysis of more than 1,000 brain scans confirmed that those with high self-preoccupation showed stronger fluctuations in this neural activity at rest. …
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