For a while now I’ve had this fascination with the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) and the role it plays in learning, addiction, and those strange
behaviors that make you scratch your head and wonder… “Why?”
To give you a brief description, this magnificent part of
the brain is the gem of our evolution and the basis for our superb neural
connections.
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is responsible for:
- abstract thinking
and thought analysis
- our active working memory
- our ability to
judge right and wrong, and foresee
the outcomes
- social control (and
controlling sexual urges)
- control over
intense emotional impulses (the seat of
good judgment)
- short term and long
term decision making; allowing you to plan ahead and create strategies.
- focusing thoughts and enabling you to
pay attention, learn, and concentrate on goals
- evaluating complex concepts and tasks
