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. 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.

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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.