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Synonyms for prefrontal
priˈfrʌn tlpre·frontal
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prefrontaladjective
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postfrontalprefrontaladjective
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postfrontalprefrontaladjective
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postfrontal
Princeton's WordNet
prefrontaladjective
anterior to a frontal structure
"a prefrontal bone"; "prefrontal lobes"
Antonyms:
posterior
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The prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until the mid-20s, so there is a slow maturation in the ability to calculate risk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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