In the bleak midwinter...why are those New Year's resolutions so impossible to keep? Apparently only about 12% are kept at all.

Recent studies indicate parts of your brain could be sabotaging your attempts to change your own behavior. The prefrontal cortex, which governs both choice-making and social control can...fall easily to temptation, according to a story at NPR.

ATH recently posted The Science of Behind Failed Resolutions and How We Decide, links to two additional articles that describe the problems with changing bad habits and making decisions.