Damage to brain region that helps with ‘self-control’ could intensify political passions: Study

NEW DELHI: (Apr 6) A study has found that damage to the prefrontal cortex in the brain that helps with self-control and reasoning could intensify one’s political feelings, while damage to brain structure ‘amygdala’, which is involved in emotional processing, could bring them down.

Conducted on Vietnam War veterans, the study compared people who had very localised brain lesions (abnormal change or injury) with those who did not.

Researchers have thus identified for the first time which brain networks regulate political passion.

Source: PTI News

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