Synonyms for prefrontal
priˈfrʌn tlpre·frontal

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1. prefrontaladjective

   Antonyms:
   postfrontal

2. prefrontaladjective

   Antonyms:
   postfrontal

3. prefrontaladjective

   Antonyms:
   postfrontal

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1. prefrontaladjective

   anterior to a frontal structure

   "a prefrontal bone"; "prefrontal lobes"

   Antonyms:
   posterior

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1. Tom Waits:

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

2. 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.

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:

   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.

5. 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.