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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. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until the mid-20s, so there is a slow maturation in the ability to calculate risk. – Pamela Rutledge	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
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. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
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. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 2 years ago
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. – Jonathan King	Found on CNN 2 years ago
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. – Glenn Levine	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. – Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
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. – Luana Marques	Found on CNN 3 years ago

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.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until the mid-20s, so there is a slow maturation in the ability to calculate risk.

– Pamela Rutledge

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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.

– Jonathan King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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.

– Glenn Levine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

– Tom Waits

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

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.

– Luana Marques

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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