The Medial Prefrontal Cortex

Send us a textThis episode continues a series on the prefrontal cortex, a complex region of the brain that gives us the ability to have the kinds of thoughts no other species on earth is known to have. The medial (or mesial) prefrontal cortex is especially important for emotional and autonomic regulation, attention and goal-directed behaviors (including addiction), and building our sense of self (that is our identity as a thing separate from the world around us), and considering salien...