John Medina's Brain Rules

Entry 056: What's Behind Your Forehead

Welcome to the next installment of Paying Attention to Attention, the video-mostly portion of the “John Medina’s Brain Rules” substack. This entry discusses the role of your brain’s prefrontal cortex (the region just behind your forehead) mediating your ability to pay attention to things. I begin with the story about a very famous traffic jam.

As ever, there are both uncaptioned and captioned (cc) versions of this video.

Here is a reference for Entry 056:

Arnsten, A. "Stress Signalling Pathways That Impair Prefrontal Cortex Structure and Function." Nat Rev Neurosci 10, no. 6 (2009): 410-22.