The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
If you have a good gratitude practice, and you repeat it regularly, you reduce the fear, anxiety circuits, you increase the efficacy of the positive emotion, feel-good circuits, and the circuits associated with motivation and pursuit are actually enhanced as well.
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what they found is that a repeated gratitude practice could change the resting state functional connectivity in emotion and motivation-related brain regions.