Prefrontal cortex

HOW IT IS BUILT The methods behind it Dopamine Hippocampus Synaptic plasticity Amygdala WHAT IT CAN DO Its core abilities WHERE IT IS USED Emotion regulation · Transcranial magn… Striatum · Choline PC learns · reasons · acts
How it's built
What it can do
Where it's used

The prefrontal cortex is the front-most region of your brain's prefrontal area, located just behind your forehead. It's the part of your brain responsible for executive functions—the higher-level thinking processes that make you distinctly human, like planning, decision-making, impulse control, and reasoning.

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