BIOL 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Frontal Lobe, Limbic System, Anti-Social Behaviour
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Area seems to monitor things when you"re not really focused on anything, or thinking very hard at all. Is actually inhibiting your limbic system, suppressing emotion and could. Involved in behavioral extinction be surpressing memory formation as a result of that. Medial pfc seems to compete with learning a feared, conditional emotional response. If over time you are exposed to what you are supposed to fear but you aren"t hearing that loud scary noise, you can let that fear go. Seems to operate through competition, medial pfc always tries to get you not to react. If nothing fights it, it will win and turn down your fear response. Anger tends to be more long term, sustained you can harbor it, involves more prefrontal thinking, pfc activation. Reasoning why you"re mad, telling your stories over and over again. You can actually watch people"s brain spread from just amygdala to pfc if its more cognitively involved.
