Researchers are turning to the brain to find out what’s behind this lack of self-control, a topic discussed in length at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston ...

Paradoxically, you could boost self-control by being less self-centered, a new brain study suggests. Self-control, the ability to resist that second chocolate-chip cookie or save up for a rainy ...

To see how this self-control showed up in the brain, Berman and his colleagues worked with 24 of the 600 or so in the original group, half of whom had shown a lifetime of exerting self-control ...

Researchers say that's because our internal reservoir of self-control can be depleted. Neuroscientist William Hedgcock discusses use of fMRI to show what happens in the brain when a person loses ...

On one side is your desire system, the network of brain areas related to seeking pleasure and reward. On the other side is your self-control system, the network of brain areas that throw up red ...

But Hedgcock's study is the first to actually show it happening in the brain using fMRI images that scan people as they perform self-control tasks. The images show the anterior cingulate cortex ...

At least that is the finding of a Swiss study that shows how stress alters the brain's network to impair self-control. The finding, published today in the journal Neuron, helps explain why people ...

Brain size matters when it comes to animal self-control. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 04 / 140422113437.htm ...

Researchers are turning to the brain to find out what’s behind this lack of self-control, a topic discussed in length at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston ...

Self-control is primarily rooted in the prefrontal cortex—the planning, problem-solving, and decision making center of the brain—which is significantly larger in humans than in other mammals.