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. Jonathan King:

   It's all five-letter words. But that said, you do need to be able to do a lot with those five-letter words, we usually think of something like this is a deductive-reasoning task, which would probably be associated with activity in the frontal and prefrontal lobes of the brain.

2. 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.

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. 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.

5. 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.