Using your basal ganglia to keep those New Year’s resolutions

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Dec 28, 2017
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Planning on making resolutions for 2018? If you’re serious about making a change, it’s important for our resolve to translate into habit. This involves mentally programming sequences of actions into your brain – in a subcortical region called the basal ganglia.

To learn more, read the full article from Inside Science.

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Sonia Mendes is the English Writer/Editor for Ingenium. She loves digging behind the scenes to tell the quirky, colourful stories of museum life and all things related to science and innovation.