Resisting the power of temptations: The right prefrontal cortex and self-control

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1104, Issue , 2007, Pages 123-134

  Knoch, Daria ^a,b,c   Fehr, Ernst ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Laterality; Prefrontal cortex; Self control; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONTROL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOLOGY; IDENTITY; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLITION;

EID: 34447644928     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1390.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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