{"id":177845,"date":"2023-12-08T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T22:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-area-associated-with-impulse-control-discovered"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T22:24:59","slug":"brain-area-associated-with-impulse-control-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-area-associated-with-impulse-control-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Brain Area Associated With Impulse Control Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-area-associated-with-impulse-control-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>A new study identified the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) as a central regulator in the brain\u2019s inhibitory control circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Using dynamic causal modeling and fMRI on a sample of 250 participants, the study reveals that the rIFG significantly influences the caudate nucleus and thalamus during response inhibition tasks. This research also shows gender differences in brain function: women have distinct neural patterns in the thalamus, and overall, better inhibitory control correlates with stronger neural communication from the thalamus to the rIFG.<\/p>\n<p>These findings provide valuable insights for developing neuromodulation therapies for mental and neurological disorders with inhibitory control deficits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new study identified the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) as a central regulator in the brain\u2019s inhibitory control circuit. Using dynamic causal modeling and fMRI on a sample of 250 participants, the study reveals that the rIFG significantly influences the caudate nucleus and thalamus during response inhibition tasks. This research also shows gender [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}