How can we promote healthy prefrontal cortex development in children and adolescents?

Feb 9, 2021 ... Prefrontal cortex is critical for cognition. Although much is known about the representation of cognitive variables in the prefrontal cortex ... Oct 2, 2024 ... Because the prefrontal cortex is still developing, pre-teens and teenagers might rely on a part of the brain called the amygdala to make ... Recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain's rational part. Oct 15, 2020 ... ... cortex. Association areas are involved in the integration of information from multiple brain regions. This integration can do things like ... For example, does exuberant axonal growth and pruning in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) ... Applications that do not provide this information will be returned ... Oct 15, 2018 ... We can categorise different types of memories based on how the information is stored (procedural or declarative memory) or based on how it is remembered and ... Oct 1, 2018 ... Abstract. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to flexible, goal-directed cognition, and understanding its representational code is an ... ... information and for processing stored information. Working memory is an important concept to understand prefrontal cortical functions. Although evidences ... Nov 7, 2024 ... Over the course of evolution, the human brain has developed ways to “vote” on which bits of information are most relevant when making decisions. (iii) Do neurons become specialized to process only one type of information, as suggested by some studies (11), or can the same neuron carry multiple types of ...