frontal lobe

And I think that was another factor behind Trump's decision not to attack because the economic consequences of that are potentially so great that they just decided, you know what, it's not worth it.

Well, I've taken to calling him President Frontal Lobe.

Do you think that he might have a moment of lucidity and build off of this experience to de-escalate and negotiate with Iran? Or do you think that the best we're going to get is this sort of frozen, semi-frozen conflict?

I think frozen conflict is probably the best we're going to get, unfortunately.

The moment those monks close their eyes and they begin to focus, there is an amazing shift in the brain.

And part of the brain called the frontal lobe turns on like they've never recorded in human history.

Now the frontal lobe is the executive of the brain.

It is the part of the brain that separates us from every other species on the planet.

It makes up 40% of your entire brain.

So now, check this out.

He tells these guys to focus on one thought.

And the frontal lobe turns on.

No, it's constantly monitoring, monitoring billions of pieces of information and then it creates stability by turning things off.

by turning off things that you're not supposed to pay attention to that are not important to you in this moment so one of the most important things it turns off is stress stress is not a bad thing but we have to understand the difference between a stressor and a stress response a stressor is something in your environment it's an event it's something that happens that gets your attention and the stress response is your brain paying attention it is absolutely necessary because otherwise you're a sitting duck but the key here is to understand that the stress happens you have a response to it and then your frontal lobe turns off the stress by being 80 to 90 percent inhibitory that's what the brain does it turns things off at the appropriate time next thing it turns off is distractions so if you're paying attention right now and somebody snaps their fingers and you look over there then you lost your attention you had attention deficit in order for you to keep paying attention to what you want your brain has to turn that distraction off it has to inhibit that distraction that improves your focus and if you don't have that focus now you have ADD every little thing gets your attention and for our purposes why this is important is because it also turns off unwanted thoughts because unwanted thoughts are a form of distraction it is something that the frontal lobe needs to monitor and of course a huge part of this are negative thoughts and distractive thoughts or any kind of thoughts that we just can't turn off generally makes us feel stressed and anxious and depressed so now let's define depression now we know what the frontal lobe does now think of the frontal lobe as a light bulb if we have a 100 watt light bulb it has plenty of power plenty of energy to turn off these things appropriately but what if this light bulb dims what if it goes down to 80 watts and it doesn't shine so brightly now we just lost 20 percent of the ability to turn these unwanted things off and if it dims further now we have less and less and less ability for the frontal lobe to monitor and create stability and peace in our lives and once you understand that now a lot of these signs and symptoms make a lot of sense if you have fatigue well the frontal lobe and motivation is what's going to give you a lot of energy if you lose that motivation you also don't have a lot of energy Poor focus and memory.

Again, distractive thoughts not being turned off.

If you're sleeping more, it's probably because you don't have any energy.

Ooh.

So today we're speaking about frontal lobes.

My lo- my frontal lobe is well and truly rotten.

My belly just rumbled as I said that.

The function is how they communicate and what they do.

So we'll be looking at the frontal lobe, which you know already controls planning, inhibition, decision-making.

Damage here also disrupts executive function like managing, expecting things, anticipatory function.

So how do you anticipate things? The parietal lobe processes spatial awareness and sensory integration and more.

It really tests you how to connect structure to function and function to behavior.

So hopefully we'll be able to get that point across as we cover today's lecture.

You'll need to know what happens to speech when Broca's area is damaged, which is in the frontal lobe, or how damage to the prefrontal cortex can quietly dismantle a person's personality long before it touches memory or even movement.

Prefrontal cortex, again, associated with a lot of things such as emotional dysregulation, inhibition, controlling compulsiveness, empathy.