How to Use Neuroscience to Make Better Decisions

The checklist on how to use neuroscience to make better decisions, check your value calculations and to add a bit of neuroanatomy. Step one is reviewing the math that's going on in the prefrontal cortex where you're estimating values and probabilities. In terms of Neuroanatomy, we know that those system one gut hunch decisions are coming from midbrain processes. And this, of course, is the emotional parts of the brain,. primarily the amygdala, but also the insular cortex and some other brain regions. These brain regions bias our decisions.