University of Texas Health Science Center Scientists Improve Human Self-Control Through Electrical Brain Stimulation

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If you have ever said or done the wrong thing at the wrong time, you should read this. Neuroscientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and the University of California, San Diego, have successfully demonstrated a technique to enhance a form of self-control through a novel form of brain stimulation. Study participants were asked to perform a simple behavioral task that required the braking/slowing of action -- inhibition -- in the brain.

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