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• s  anterior to a frontal structure
  a prefrontal bone
  prefrontal lobes

• The prefrontal cortex, which controls planning, organization, abstraction and forethought, is the same region that allows us to concentrate, and it starts to diminish in size well .
• While the monks were generating feelings of compassion, activity in the left prefrontal swamped activity in the right prefrontal (associated with negative moods) to a degree never .
• By identifying interactions between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala (a key center for processing memory and emotion), his studies may lead to new therapeutic approaches for .

News & Articles

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• Severe thunderstorms possible this afternoon
  Severe thunderstorms are possible across all of Central Alabama this afternoon and evening. The severe risk comes as a prefrontal through, ahead of the actual surface front, pushes southward into central parts of the state.
  June 28, 2013 - The Demopolis Times
• Reliving High School Through Instagram
  Love it or hate it, you never quite leave it. Pimple-laced, cringe-inducing and unexpectedly transcendent, high school memories are the most vivid. But why do they linger? Neuroscientists say memories you create during your adolescence — when your identity is most in flux — are some of the strongest stored. And it’s during that time your prefrontal cortex — the part of the brain that’s ...
  June 28, 2013 - Techland

Quotes

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• John Ratey in NPR
  They're activating the prefrontal area,says John Ratey, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "One of the jobs [of this part of the brain] is to inhibit the impulsivity coming up from the emotional part of the...
• Richard Davidson in University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications
  It has long been appreciated that adaptability is a key capability of the prefrontal cortex that is a hallmark of the human brain. It gives us the ability to design, create, and use tools to do everything from lift massive weights to make... Miguel Nicolelis http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Nicolelis&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE5OnO-597PXQ8cP6ouJRhkIsfLjg Science Daily (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050511073108.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEVcNgCkFaVhjX2SEXk6WX_pNzfTQ May 11, 2005 76983 103899 prefrontal We found that regions of the brain that are intimately involved in the control and regulation of attention, such as the prefrontal cortex, were more activated in the long-term practitioners," Davidson says.