Synonyms for prefrontal cortex
pre·frontal cor·tex

Princeton's WordNet

1. prefrontal lobe, prefrontal cortexnoun

   the anterior part of the frontal lobe

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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. 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.

3. 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.

4. Glenn Levine:

   Often we let our mind quickly react to something before we've truly had time to allow our higher levels of cognitive functioning, our prefrontal cortex, to weigh in, we want to pause, ponder and digest this, and take a couple seconds to decide what is the most skillful way to react.

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.