The anterior mid-cingulate cortex
When people do anything that they don't want to do, it's not about adding more work, it's about adding more work that you don't want to do, this brain area gets bigger.
This is a structure that learns. It has neuro plasticity, the ability to change throughout the entire lifespan.
This structure, anterior mid-cingulate cortex, it's strongly activated when we move our body when we don't want to move our body.
The scientists are starting to think of the anterior-admin singlet cortex not just as one of the seats of will, the power, but perhaps actually the seat of the will to live.
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