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.

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.

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

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

Prefrontal cortex is an interesting brain area.

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.

So we've got motor cortex activation up there.

On the side here, this is temporal cortex.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That is why, with support from the rest of our continent, we have engaged in a frontal attack on corruption and impunity.

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?

If you look at the first slide there, that's the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, OK the lobes that constitute the brain.

The bell curve shows 150 controls, and what is being looked at is the difference between the right and the left frontal lobe.

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.

Two months into that mandate, we can already see an energetic and ambitious frontal approach to the most pressing matters on the organization's agenda.

Now, at this level, in what's called the inferotemporal cortex, there are only visual images, or figments or fragments.

By definition, two people picked at random can't have correlations in the distribution of gray matter in the cortex.