Word: frontal
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...commitment to equality is just empty words when it is followed by a frontal attack on affirmative action, issued of all days on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday,” the senator said...
...technique that sends an electrical current through the vagus nerve--a major conduit wiring the heart and intestines--which then delivers it to the brain. Another approach, called regional transcranial magnetic stimulation, uses an electric coil shaped like a figure eight to create a magnetic field inside the pre-frontal cortex, which plays a key role in mood regulation...
...smallest brain structures (for example, the brain's center for emotion, the amygdala, in yellow, is deeply buried but visible). Using MRIs, scientists have learned that the brains of schizophrenics, above right, are smaller than those of people without the disease, above left, and that they have smaller frontal lobes, the part of the brain responsible for planning, decision making, higher learning and emotions...
PUBERTY 10-13 yrs. Just before puberty, the brain's gray matter thickens, especially in the frontal lobe, the seat of planning, impulse control and reasoning. This growth may be triggered by surges of sex hormones...
EARLY ADULTHOOD 20-30 yrs. By the late 20s, information processing begins to slow down. Memory centers in the hippocampus and frontal lobes seem most affected. However, this change is not usually noticeable until at least...