Definitions for prefrontal cortex
pre·frontal cor·tex

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1. prefrontal lobe, prefrontal cortexnoun

   the anterior part of the frontal lobe

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1. prefrontal cortexnoun

   The anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, lying in front of the motor and premotor areas.

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1. prefrontal cortex

   The prefrontal cortex is the section of the brain located at the front of the frontal lobe, often associated with the executive functions such as decision making, problem solving, planning, social behavior, personality expression, and regulating complex cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. It plays a crucial role in goal-oriented behavior and is considered critical for cognitive analysis and abstract thinking.

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1. Prefrontal cortex

   The prefrontal cortex is the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, lying in front of the motor and premotor areas. This brain region has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior. The basic activity of this brain region is considered to be orchestration of thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals. The most typical psychological term for functions carried out by the prefrontal cortex area is executive function. Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control". Many authors have indicated an integral link between a person's personality and the functions of the prefrontal cortex.

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1. Prefrontal Cortex

   The rostral part of the frontal lobe, bounded by the inferior precentral fissure in humans, which receives projection fibers from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus. The prefrontal cortex receives afferent fibers from numerous structures of the diencephalon, mesencephalon, and limbic system as well as cortical afferents of visual, auditory, and somatic origin.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prefrontal cortex in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prefrontal cortex in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of prefrontal cortex in a Sentence

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:

   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.

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. 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.

5. 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.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prefrontal_Cortex
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4. ^ Wikidata
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