Relative to controls, depressed patients showed hyperactivity of circuit termed " the salience network, " composed of the pulvinar nuclei, the insula, and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, as well as decreased activity in regulatory circuits composed of the striatum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
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The imperial box ( pulvinar ) of the circus is connected, via a covered portico, to the villa of Maxentius, whose scant remains are today obscured by dense foliage, except for the apse of the basilical audience hall, which pokes out from the tree tops.
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There was a pulvinar at the Circus Maximus, on which initially statues and attributes of the gods were placed after a procession during games, but Augustus also occupied it himself ( possibly copying Julius Caesar ), building a temple-like structure in the seating to house it.
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The risk of further fire-damage, coupled with Domitian's fate, may have prompted Trajan's decision to rebuild the Circus entirely in stone, and provide a new pulvinar in the stands where Rome's emperor could be seen and honoured as part of the Roman community, alongside her gods.
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Hitler anticipated that after winning the war the world would have no choice but to send its athletes to Germany every time the Olympic Games were held at which, no doubt, victors would have received their prizes from the F�hrer, surrounded by the party faithful on the pulvinar on the short axis of the cavernous stadium.
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Some, however, assign an Etruscan origin to the ceremony, the Sibylline Books themselves being looked upon as old Italian " black books . " It may be that as the lectisternia became an almost everyday occurrence in Rome, people forgot their foreign origin and the circumstances in which they were first introduced, and then the word " pulvinar " with its associations was transferred to times in which it had no existence.
