frontal gyrus
Americannoun
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The inferior frontal gyrus, key in inhibitory control, may play a crucial role in how adolescents regulate their engagement with rewarding stimuli such as social media.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Brain scans also showed that siblings had similar abnormalities in the connections between their inferior frontal gyrus, an area of the brain involved with self-control, and other regions that are critical for inhibiting impulses.
From Time • Feb. 3, 2012
“The inferior frontal gyrus is really one of the main ‘brakes’ of our brain,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wrote a commentary accompanying the study in .
From Time • Feb. 3, 2012
Scientifically, these are known as the left inferior frontal gyrus, the left parieto-temporal area and the left occipito-temporal area.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One area in left superior frontal gyrus showed superficial gliosis.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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