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Paper that shows that the [[vmPFC]] is correlated to self control<ref>[http://www.rnl.caltech.edu/publications/pdf/hare2009.pdf Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system. Todd A Hare, Colin F Camerer, Antonio Rangel(2009) Science 324 (5927) p. 646-8] </ref>
[[OFC]] also connected to impulsivty and self control. lack of activation in the OFC will result impulsivity. Testosterone seems to inhibit the OFC and result impulsivity<reref>[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn.2009.21389#.VHetlcn-vrI Pranjal H. Mehta and Jennifer Beer, 2010, Neural Mechanisms of the Testosterone–Aggression Relation: The Role of Orbitofrontal Cortex]</ref>.
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