The Devil and Shrinking Frontal Lobes Made Me Say It

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All those times when you may have had the urge to tell some young street punk to pull up his pants so he's not walking around mooning half the town or suggest to some still-wet-behind-the-ears state trooper what he might do with his little old speeding ticket, you may have thought it was just the devil making you want to do it.

Now comes a story in Newsweek magazine reporting on an article in the October issue of the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science claiming that such politically incorrect impulses that become more common with age are a result of shrinkage of your frontal lobes, the circuitry responsible for inhibiting unwanted speech and behavior.

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The Devil and Shrinking Frontal Lobes Made Me Say It

In other words - if you want to get technical about it - the anterior division of each of our cerebral hemispheres tends to dry up with age, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it other...

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