"Second Thoughts" - Found in Brain

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	"Second Thoughts" - Found in Brain

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7-14-2008 3:17 PM

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7-19-2008 2:17 AM

nightbinoculars

There is no little voice in my head. There are many shouting voices there!!!

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about to do is real, brain researchers say.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20070821/second-thoughts-are-real?src=RSS_PUBLIC">researchers now say last-minute second thoughts come from a specific part of the 
brain</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20070821/second-thoughts-are-real?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>"Many people recognize the 'little voice inside the head' that stops you from doing something, like pressing the 'send' button on an angry email," Haggard says in a news release. "Our study identifies the brain processes involved in that last-minute rethink about what we are doing."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20070821/second-thoughts-are-real?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Brass and Haggard find that a brain region just above and between your eyes -- the dorsal fronto-median cortex or dFMC -- is specifically designed to let you pull back from doing something you were just about to do.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20070821/second-thoughts-are-real?src=RSS_PUBLIC">The participants were asked to decide to push a button at times of their own 
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