prefrontal

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PF
Pronunciation
/priˈfrəntəl/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. Most significantly of all, it shrinks the volume of the prefrontal(PF) cortex and the hippocampus.
  2. The neuropsychological research showed that bilateral inferior parietal lobule and left prefrontal(PF) are related to calculation processing.
  3. At this point, the prefrontal(PF) cortex begins to idle down again.
  4. The research team then used microscopic techniques to visualize the spines on nerve cells within the prefrontal(PF) cortex.
  5. His studies have shown that psychopaths and criminals have smaller areas of the brain such as the amygdala and prefrontal(PF) cortex, both of which regulate and control emotion and behavior.

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