Researchers examining postmortem human brains have found that the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for planning, ...
To understand our brains, there is no insight more fundamental than this: The mind is modular (LeDoux, 2003). This means the brain is not one single, unitary entity but an amalgamation of different ...
The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...
Around 70% of women who suffer a sexual assault develop PTSD; now scientists have shown that many of these women show a marked reduction in the usual communication between two important brain areas ...
The Prefrontal Cortex and the Limbic System A great deal of our moment-to-moment experience results from the interplay of these two parts of the brain. When you understand this interplay, you will ...