ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2018
Stimulating Self-Regulation: A Review of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Studies of Goal-Directed Behavior.
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- Modulating task-outcome value to mitigate real-world procrastination via noninvasive brain stimulation.eLife · 2026Trial
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- Coupling of Rhythms in Prefrontal Cortex and Autonomic Nervous System in School-Age Children.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- From Cortex to Cardiac Response: tDCS of the Prefrontal Cortex Improves Autonomic Markers of Emotion Regulation.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Parietal cortex is recruited by frontal and cingulate areas to support action monitoring and updating during stopping.NeuroImage · 2025Article
- Culture and Behaviour Management of Children in the Dental Clinic: A Scoping Review.Dentistry journal · 2025Review
- Health-related quality of life associated with fatigue, physical activity and activity pacing in adults with chronic conditions.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Stress, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, and aggression.Metabolic brain disease · 2024Review
- The Effect of Induced Regulatory Focus on Frontal Cortical Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Too Tired to Think: Within and Between-Person Relations Among Impulsive Traits, Sleep Duration, and Mental Health Outcomes.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2024Article
- A conceptual framework for a neurophysiological basis of art therapy for PTSD.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Anodal cerebellar t-DCS impacts skill learning and transfer on a robotic surgery training task.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The neurophysiological Behavioral Perspective Model of consumer choice and its contribution to the intentional behaviorist research programme.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Modulated effectiveness of rehabilitation motivation by reward strategies combined with tDCS in stroke: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Changes in synaptic markers after administration of ketamine or psychedelics: a systematic scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Unraveling the Neuropsychological Underpinnings of Self-Regulation Problems in Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses Against Children: A Look Into Reinforcement Learning.Sexual offending (Trier, Germany) · 2023Review
- A pilot randomized clinical trial of tDCS for increasing exercise engagement in individuals with elevated depressive symptoms: Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- Association of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Neurofeedback With Declarative Memory and Cerebral Arterial Flow in University Students: Protocol for a Double-blind Randomized Controlled Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Application of EMGB to Study Impacts of Public Green Space on Active Transport Behavior: Evidence from South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Emotional Context Sculpts Action Goal Representations in the Lateral Frontal Pole.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Self-regulation enables individuals to guide their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a purposeful manner. Self-regulation is thus crucial for goal-directed behavior and contributes to many consequential outcomes in life including physical health, psychological well-being, ethical decision making, and strong interpersonal relationships. Neuroscientific research has revealed that the prefrontal cortex plays a central role in self-regulation, specifically by exerting top-down control over subcortical regions involved in reward (e.g., striatum) and emotion (e.g., amygdala). To orient readers, we first offer a methodological overview of tDCS and then review experiments using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (especially transcranial direct current stimulation) to target prefrontal brain regions implicated in self-regulation. We focus on brain stimulation studies of self-regulatory behavior across three broad domains of response: persistence, delay behavior, and impulse control. We suggest that stimulating the prefrontal cortex promotes successful self-regulation by altering the balance in activity between the prefrontal cortex and subcortical regions involved in emotion and reward processing.
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