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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weight loss success linked with active self-control regions of the brain. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 24, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 10 / 181018141126.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.