wedrifid comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 July 2010 09:56:30AM *  3 points [-]

Is anything known about a physical basis for conscientiousness?

It can be reliably predicted by, for example, SPECT scans. If I recall correctly you can expect to see over-active frontal lobes and basal ganglia. For this reason (and because those areas depend on dopamine a lot) dopaminergics (Ritalin, etc) make a big difference.