What Your Brain Looks Like When You Lose Self-Control
Bookmark & ShareJune 22, 2012 Source: NPR Science Friday
Ever wonder why you worked so hard to avoid the lasagna at dinner only to give into your craving for dessert? Researchers say that’s because our internal reservoir of self-control can be depleted. In this radio interview, neuroscientist William Hedgcock discusses use of fMRI to show what happens in the brain when a person loses self-control.
