Modafinil was found to increase the number of moral decisions and had no effect on brain activity associated with dilemma processing. Reduced response-locked activity in the dorsomedial PFC for moral dilemmas was found with modafinil, but not with placebo
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Moral dilemmas activated brain regions involved in social cognitive processing—e.g., bilateral medial PFC, the insula, and the precuneus—more than non-moral dilemmas. Modafinil affected moral decisions, but "had no [general] effect on" those brain regions.