How to Use prefrontal in a Sentence

prefrontal

adjective

• The prefrontal area, on the other hand, shuts down during sleep.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 18 July 2018
• Through tonight: While the front is still well west, there are some prefrontal showers in the area that could roll by during the commute.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• As well as having more prefrontal neurons, there were also some other issues in some but not all of the autism brains.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2011
• A front and prefrontal wind shift will mix it up with this heat and humidity tomorrow to produce a risk of severe storms.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 13 July 2017
• The prefrontal cortex performs a traffic cop role, doing more than just keeping the brain focused on a conscious task.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2017
• As the center of learning and cognition, the prefrontal lobe assists in storing long-term memories.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
• When did our species acquire the ability of prefrontal synthesis?
  — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
• The prefrontal lobe is associated with this type of memory.
  — Vartika Puranik, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2022
• Both are designed to thrash your prefrontal cortex into submission.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• Lobotomies, which cut connections to the brain’s prefrontal cortex, were sometimes performed at that time as treatment for mental illness or to quell extreme suffering for the dying.
  — National Geographic, 12 July 2017
• The group that played the nonviolent game showed more activity in the prefrontal parts of the brain, which are involved in inhibition, concentration and self-control.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• In 1949, the prize for medicine was awarded to Antonio Moniz for inventing prefrontal lobotomy, which turned people into walking shells of themselves and termed them cured.​ Enough said.
  — Devang Mehta, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• The prefrontal area inhibits irrelevant thoughts or actions.
  — Alison Gopnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
• If the task is visual, such as matching bananas, a monkey activates a different area of the prefrontal cortex than when matching voices in an auditory task.
  — Paloma Mari-Beffa, CNN, 9 May 2017
• While your own prefrontal area might link a sequence of visual material to form an episodic memory, the Boskop may have added additional material from sounds, smells, and so on.
  — Richard Granger, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• Myelination in the prefrontal cortex is not completed until the early to mid-20s, so teenagers have not yet developed these advanced thinking abilities.
  — Molly Lotz, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• President Kennedy's sister, Rosemary Kennedy, had part of her brain removed in 1941 in a relatively new procedure known as a prefrontal lobotomy.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 2 Aug. 2019
• Women displayed way more brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, the region that deals with decision making, focus and impulse control.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2017
• The presence of his adored Rose, who would spend her life in mental institutions after being given a prefrontal lobotomy, feels especially vivid.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• In either case, anything is better than the plastic bottled, 0 percent juice, neon, high-fructose margarita mixes, which pair best with microwave TV dinners and a prefrontal lobotomy.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2023
• The prefrontal and medial temporal cortex, which control memory have greater volume in those who exercise.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
• Understanding how fish behave on high-pressure days versus prefrontal days with dropping barometric pressure is key.
  — Kristtine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 6 May 2020
• When Bruce was around 5, she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy and confined to mental institutions.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
• But there was less activity in areas like the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which contributes to self-control.
  — Tim Requarth, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
• These heavy multitaskers showed higher prefrontal-cortex activity than mono-taskers.
  — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
• Tempest said this type of stimulation to the prefrontal cortex can help patients with attention, working memory, problem-solving and impulse control.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 15 May 2017
• However, Blomstedt points to evidence that Ducosté may have inspired the development of prefrontal lobotomy — an operation which was adopted around the world.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020
• Another key finding was that prefrontal brain activity increased each time people interacted with the real dog.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022
• Freeman traveled to mental institutions around the U.S. in the ’50s and ’60s championing the dangerous brain surgery and continuing long after prefrontal lobotomies were widely discredited.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 July 2019
• Here is the problem with cognitive therapies, according to the CRM innovators: Talking engages primarily with the prefrontal cortex—the walnut-contoured upper layer of the brain that processes language and abstract thought.
  — Matthew Green, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024