Found: the brain’s centre of wisdom - Times Online
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SCIENTISTS have identified the seat of human wisdom by pinpointing parts of the brain that guide us when we face difficult moral dilemmas.
Sophisticated brain scanning techniques have found that humans respond by activating areas associated with the primitive emotions of sex, fear and anger as well as our capability for abstract thought.
The findings, to be published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, represent a significant incursion into territory once regarded as the domain of religion and philosophy.
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medial prefrontal cortex
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It seems to involve a balance between more primitive
brain regions, like the limbic system, and the newest ones, such as the
prefrontal cortex.”
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