{"id":216060,"date":"2025-06-16T18:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/brain-damage-in-key-region-increases-susceptibility-to-others-impulsive-choices-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:55:03","slug":"brain-damage-in-key-region-increases-susceptibility-to-others-impulsive-choices-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/brain-damage-in-key-region-increases-susceptibility-to-others-impulsive-choices-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Brain damage in key region increases susceptibility to others\u2019 impulsive choices, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-damage-in-key-region-increases-susceptibility-to-others-impulsive-choices-study-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.3003079\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i><i>PLOS Biology<\/i>,<\/i> a research team found that damage to distinct parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/medial+prefrontal+cortex\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medial prefrontal cortex<\/a> (mPFC) was linked to being influenced by impulsive decision-making by others, while another region was causally linked with choosing a smaller reward earlier rather than waiting for a larger prize.<\/p>\n<p>The team from the University of Birmingham, University of Oxford and Julius-Maximilians-University W\u00fcrzburg worked with participants with brain damage to assess whether they were more likely to be influenced by other people\u2019s preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people. In a new study published in PLOS Biology, a research team found that damage to distinct parts of the medial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216060","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}