In addition, offering rewards will not work because he is too young and his frontal cortex still too immature to enable an understanding of this concept.

It turns out that I have three times more activity in my right frontal cortex than my left.

That is one interpretation of a study on mice that observed changes in the animals' frontal cortex following exposure to the drug.

In adolescence hormonal changes have an effect on the frontal cortex of the brain.

It floods the frontal cortex not with policy but with personality.

It is a survival mechanism, but we control it using our prefrontal cortex.

There is also a difference between reading silently, which is moderately stimulating, and reading out loud, which sets the prefrontal cortex going like the clappers.

Similarly, habitual impulsive criminals have an under-developed dorsolateral prefrontal cortex - the area thought to be involved in learning from mistakes.

It found a signal in a part of the brain called the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

The brain regions affected by 'rosetinted spectacle syndrome' are the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex.