Human Prefrontal Cortex
Anatomy & Function
Human Prefrontal Cortex
Anatomy & Function
It was found that the right neocortex promotes negative emotions such as fear, anger, and aggression, while the left neocortex largely neutralizes these “primitive” emotions.
The Prefrontal Cortex brain area, when sufficiently activated, acts as the emotional manager of a person. It brings a more analytical or more appropriate reaction into our emotional impulses and responses by dampening the amygdalae and other limbic regions. In humans, the strongest neural connections between the neocortex and the amygdala run to
... See more“Thus, the prefrontal cortex is the depository of executive memory networks, that is, networks that represent past actions, future actions, or both. ”
Excerpt From
The Prefrontal Cortex
Joaquin Fuster
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-prefrontal-cortex/id1000793031
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“The most common cognitive disorders of frontal patients consist of abnormalities of attention, that is, of the capacity to concentrate neural resources in the processing of one given item of information, sensory or motor, to the exclusion of all others. ”
Excerpt From
The Prefrontal Cortex
Joaquin Fuster
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-prefrontal-
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