Well, according to this article, one completes tasks that are considered meaningful to oneself, which in essence, activates many brain areas associated with the cause of depression. For comprehending how these depression related regions work, one should understand how one 's brain is mapped. The starting point would be considered one 's pleasure center, also known as one 's nucleus accumbens. This brain region actually allows one to react properly to stimulus stemming from one 's environment. To have this region activated, one must utilize movement. The most crucial form of this would be our hands because “they allow us to gain control of our environment… movement—and especially hand movements that lead to a desired outcome… prevents the onset of and building resilience against depression and other emotional disorders”[100]. With knowing the multiple effects that this one particular region has, one must also see how these effects occur; which leads to the other importance of this region being its positioning in the brain. The accumbens is located in close proximity to one 's motor system ( for movements), one 's limbic system ( involved in one 's emotions and learning) and finally it extends to one 's prefrontal cortex (controls one 's thought processes; including problem solving, making decisions and planning things). All of these regions work together in order to create "a critical interface between our emotions and our actions"; Therefore creating the "effort-driven reward circuit" [101]. An example to illustrate this co-working evidence of brain regions, the author spoke upon a study done with laboratory rats. Writhing this study, there were "working rats" and "trust fund rats" to depict the different lifestyles of generations as previously described. When doing a reward revealing task, the results show that the working rats immediately started on their
Well, according to this article, one completes tasks that are considered meaningful to oneself, which in essence, activates many brain areas associated with the cause of depression. For comprehending how these depression related regions work, one should understand how one 's brain is mapped. The starting point would be considered one 's pleasure center, also known as one 's nucleus accumbens. This brain region actually allows one to react properly to stimulus stemming from one 's environment. To have this region activated, one must utilize movement. The most crucial form of this would be our hands because “they allow us to gain control of our environment… movement—and especially hand movements that lead to a desired outcome… prevents the onset of and building resilience against depression and other emotional disorders”[100]. With knowing the multiple effects that this one particular region has, one must also see how these effects occur; which leads to the other importance of this region being its positioning in the brain. The accumbens is located in close proximity to one 's motor system ( for movements), one 's limbic system ( involved in one 's emotions and learning) and finally it extends to one 's prefrontal cortex (controls one 's thought processes; including problem solving, making decisions and planning things). All of these regions work together in order to create "a critical interface between our emotions and our actions"; Therefore creating the "effort-driven reward circuit" [101]. An example to illustrate this co-working evidence of brain regions, the author spoke upon a study done with laboratory rats. Writhing this study, there were "working rats" and "trust fund rats" to depict the different lifestyles of generations as previously described. When doing a reward revealing task, the results show that the working rats immediately started on their