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Synonyms for prefrontal
priˈfrʌn tlpre·frontal

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  1. prefrontaladjective

    Antonyms:
    postfrontal

  2. prefrontaladjective

    Antonyms:
    postfrontal

  3. prefrontaladjective

    Antonyms:
    postfrontal

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  1. prefrontaladjective

    anterior to a frontal structure

    "a prefrontal bone"; "prefrontal lobes"

    Antonyms:
    posterior

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  1. Amy Arnsten:

    If you feel like you're in control of the stressor, then there aren't these toxic brain changes, if you feel out of control it leads to chemical changes in the prefrontal cortex that weakens the connections, and over time actually erode those connections away.

  2. Luana Marques:

    Charge up, what I mean by that is eating, sleeping and exercise. All three of those are things that we know help us activate our prefrontal cortex.

  3. Pamela Rutledge:

    The prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until the mid-20s, so there is a slow maturation in the ability to calculate risk.

  4. Amy Arnsten:

    These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.

  5. Amy Arnsten:

    It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not.

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