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Memories are stored all over the brain, and it’s likely the prefrontal cortex that signals for their retrieval.
The act of remembering relies on the prefrontal cortex, which governs thought, attention, and reasoning.
When corticosteroids stimulate the amygdala, the amygdala inhibits, or lessens the activity of, the prefrontal cortex.
Moreover, when updating impressions based on people's behaviors, activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the superior temporal sulcus correlates with perceptions of how frequently those behaviors occur in daily life.
Now, the prefrontal cortex, that youngest part of our brain from an evolutionary perspective, it understands on an intellectual level that we shouldn't smoke.
When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our old habits, which is why this disenchantment is so important.
Too much of it results in the loss of synaptic connections between neurons and the shrinking of your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain the regulates behaviors like concentration, decision-making, judgement, and social interaction.
One plausible candidate is the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in all complex cognitive functions.
Prefrontal cortex neurons are connected to the posterior cortex by long, spindly cell extensions called neural fibers.
The mental synthesis theory proposes that like a puppeteer pulling the strings, the prefrontal cortex neurons send electrical signals down these neural fibers to multiple ensembles in the posterior cortex.
This conscious purposeful synchronization of different neuronal ensembles by the prefrontal cortex is called mental synthesis.
The problem is that some neurons are much farther away from the prefrontal cortex than others.
In addition, attractive faces activate parts of our reward and pleasure centers in the front and deep in the brain, and these include areas that have complicated names, like the ventral striatum, the orbitofrontal cortex and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
I'm told that that's the prefrontal cortex.
The front part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for your executive function, your attentional control, is now being downregulated.
And right about now, the activity in your prefrontal cortex is changing.
It goes to the nucleus accumbens, all the way up to the prefrontal cortex, orbital frontal cortex, where decisions are made, high level.
Your stress hormones rise and stay there, your executive function in the prefrontal cortex declines.
And while a more recent study did show that reaction times and errors increase for some bilingual students in cross-language tests, it also showed that the effort and attention needed to switch between languages triggered more activity in, and potentially strengthened, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
So you have the prefrontal cortex here, lighting up in red.
What does a prefrontal cortex do for you that should justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull in the blink of evolutionary time?
Well, it turns out the prefrontal cortex does lots of things, but one of the most important things it does is it's an experience simulator.
The recognition of the brain’s vulnerability and plasticity under stress began with investigations of the hippocampus, and it now includes the amygdala, a brain region involved in fear, anxiety, and mood, and the prefrontal cortex, which is important in decision making, memory, and top-down control of impulsive behavior, as well as regulation of the autonomic nervous system and stress hormone axis.
Repeated stress causes neurons in the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex to shrink and lose connections with other nerve cells, while it also causes neurons in the amygdala to grow and form new connections.
Unfortunately for America’s children, the high-functioning circuits in the caregiver’s prefrontal cortex that these skills demand are directly affected by stress.
Likewise, neuroimaging studies show that placebo treatment activates specific brain structures such as the prefrontal cortex and the rostral anterior cingulate cortex.
Three brain areas - the hippocampus, the prefrontal cortex, and the amygdala - are particularly susceptible to pathological changes in size and function.
Similarly, there is evidence that the prefrontal cortex - a key structure in emotional regulation as well as in decision-making and working memory - shrinks in major depression.
Consideration for others is “located in the prefrontal cortex.”
Or rather: all that wiring in the prefrontal cortex must be ethical, because it is good for survival.
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