IF YOU want to be a professional athlete, get a grip on your emotions. Amateur golfers use their brain’s emotion centres when playing a shot, but professional golfers do not.
John Milton of the University of Chicago in Illinois and his team asked six professional women golfers and seven women amateurs to imagine approaching a tee-off to a target pin, and then take the appropriate swing. While they did this, the researchers mapped their brain activity using functional MRI, they told a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Honolulu.
In the amateurs the scans revealed activity in limbic…
