A part of the brain that helps stop humans from making bad decisions and acts as our conscience has been discovered by scientists
The small ball of neural tissue, named the lateral frontal pole, is vital for pondering the ‘what ifs’ of life, researchers said.
Other parts of the brain keep tabs on how well decisions are working, but this new region thinks over what we might have done instead.
Scientists at Oxford University made the discovery after scanning human brains in two different ways.........