It goes to the nucleus accumbens, all the way up to the prefrontal cortex, orbital frontal cortex, where decisions are made, high level.

It's been shown to promote pre frontal cortex development where a lot of cognition is happening.

It's been shown to promote pre frontal cortex development where a lot of cognition is happening.

And you see that in humans, because of the development of the pre frontal cortex, it's called.

And one of the main reasons our brain got so big is because it got a new part, called the frontal lobe. And particularly, a part called the pre frontal cortex.

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

So people who have damage to their orbital frontal cortex seem to be unable to feel regret in the face of even obviously very poor decisions.

In red is an area that active in the prefrontal cortex, the frontal lobe of the brain, and in blue is this area that was deactivated.

Now what does a pre frontal cortex do for you that should justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull in the blink of evolutionary time?

Well, it turns out the pre frontal cortex does lots of things, but one of the most important things it does is it is an experience simulator.

Really, consciousness is seated in the frontal lobe.

The Afrika Korps is not committed to frontal attack.

Prefrontal cortex is an interesting brain area.

The British are about to launch a massive frontal offensive.

And you do that by measuring the relative activation of the left prefrontal cortex in the fMRI, versus the right prefrontal cortex.

So we've got motor cortex activation up there.

On the side here, this is temporal cortex.

And he studied Alzheimer's patients that had frontal temporal lobe dementia.

There is about 20 regions of the brain that have been modeled, simulated and tested the auditory cortex, regions of the visual cortex cerebellum, where we do our skill formation slices of the cerebral cortex, where we do our rational thinking.

You don't form images with your primary visual cortex.

You're flying through the cortex of my colleague's brain.

So from the retina you go onto visual cortex.

This big cortex, or whatever, we're pretty proud of ourselves.

And you know, of course, what'll happen if you do a pre frontal lobotomy.

Each individual's cortex is folded differently, very much like a fingerprint.

So you have the prefrontal cortex here, lighting up in red.

And you can see here, he's starting to get more energy into the frontal lobe.

When people have these simple geometrical hallucinations, the primary visual cortex is activated.

And primary visual cortex sees just simple geometry, just the simplest of shapes.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

Now, you go to this one and you see how much more the frontal lobes are lighting up.

One of the brain regions that changes most dramatically during adolescence is called prefrontal cortex.

I've gone and had an fMRI myself, to see how my visual cortex is taking over.

Again, I'm putting your anterior cingulate cortex to the test here, causing you conflicting pattern detections.

When images are formed, a higher part of the visual cortex is involved in the temporal lobe.

Why care if it is the brain stem or the cerebral cortex and how this is made?

like Huntington's or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease where you have a bombed out part of your cortex.

It had to add to the frontal part, so that you would have instincts, because they had to cope on land.

The heavy and desperate fist of Rommel fell on Tobruk again and again, through the Luftwaffe, massed artillery and frontal attack.

All those months he was calling me Vanderbilt '44 and Frontal Lobe when I should've been punching him in the nose.

And then, as you grow up, the cortex develops, and inhibits these latent sexual urges towards your mother.

So this is a model of the human brain, and this is prefrontal cortex, right at the front.

You cannot have a conscious mind if you don't have the interaction between cerebral cortex and brain stem.

Except that they're not as rich as ours, because they don't have a cerebral cortex like we do.

And so we had this focal area called the medial prefrontal cortex that went way up in activity.