Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system.

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Toward a neurobiological model of cue-induced self-control in decision making: relevance to addiction and obesity.

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Neurocircuits underlying cognition-emotion interaction in a social decision making context

Decision making (DM) in the context of others often entails complex cognition-emotion interaction. While the literature suggests that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), striatum, and amygdala are involved in valuation-based DM and hippocampus in context processing, how these neural mechanisms subserve the integration of cognitive and emotional values in a social context remains unclear...

Cognitive regulation during decision making shifts behavioral control between ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal value systems.

Cognitive regulation is often used to influence behavioral outcomes. However, the computational and neurobiological mechanisms by which it affects behavior remain unknown. We studied this issue using an fMRI task in which human participants used cognitive regulation to upregulate and downregulate their cravings for foods at the time of choice. We found that activity in both ventromedial prefron...

Higher heart rate variability is associated with vmPFC activity and increased resistance to temptation in dietary self-control challenges.

Higher levels of self-control in decision making have been linked to better psychosocial and physical health. A similar link to health outcomes has been reported for heart rate variability (HRV), a marker of physiological flexibility. Here, we sought to link these two, largely separate, research domains by testing the hypothesis that greater HRV would be associated with better dietary self-cont...