Check this out:
Where Regret Roosts in the Brain: “That ‘would-a, could-a, should-a’ emotion apparently registers on your brain. New research traces regret to the brain’s medial orbitofrontal cortex”
Doesn’t come as a huge surprise to me that the area they pinpoint for The Center of Regret also resides dangerously near the neurotransmitters that misfire in ADHD kids.
and this is also interesting:
“That didn’t always work. As regret deepened, so did participants’ efforts to escape the emotion by making better choices.”
We know that’s not the case with the ADHD adult or child. We are more likely to forget that we had regret if the event takes place more than a week or so away from the first regrettable event.
