{"id":1637,"date":"2025-03-17T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1637"},"modified":"2025-03-17T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:20:30","slug":"transcript-shanker-self-regulation-self-control-and-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-shanker-self-regulation-self-control-and-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Shanker \u2013 self-regulation, self-control and the brain \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we study self-control, when neuroscientists study self-control, we\u2019re really interested in a fairly specific part of the prefrontal cortex, the medial prefrontal cortex. When we study self-regulation, what we\u2019re really interested in is the sort of flow between the limbic system and various parts of the prefrontal cortex.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could be the medial prefrontal, it could also be the dorsal lateral prefrontal or the ventral medial. But we have one specific system when we\u2019re looking at self-regulation which is the anterior cingulate cortex and by focusing on that it has two ends to it, two sides.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when the child is in a state where they can in fact exercise self-control, the one side lights up. It\u2019s kind of blue on your imaging. When the child is in a dis-regulated state or what we call a \u201cred brain state,\u201d the other side is. So you can actually see, you can actually study self-regulation and whether what you\u2019re doing is enhancing the child\u2019s calmness by seeing which side of this ACC is lit up. It\u2019s fascinating stuff to see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we study self-control, when neuroscientists study self-control, we\u2019re really interested in a fairly specific part of the prefrontal cortex, the medial prefrontal cortex. When we study self-regulation, what we\u2019re really interested in is the sort of flow between the limbic system and various parts of the prefrontal cortex.&nbsp;&nbsp; It could be the medial prefrontal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1637","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1637\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}