The regions in the prefrontal cortex, the higher order thinking and reasoning regions of the brain. But some of those regions in the medial \u2013middle– area are involved in stress regulation. The logic here, nature\u2019s logic, seems to be, that if you\u2019re going to grow, if you\u2019re going to live in an environment of threat, you need to be an act first, think later person. And so these biases you\u2019re seeing, and what\u2019s happening to the brain, are getting you to perceive threat and react, and the prefrontal cortex isn\u2019t saying, \u201cWait a minute, let\u2019s think about it. Should we run? Should we not run? Was it a tiger? Did it have stripes?\u201d It\u2019s going [slap] \u201coutta here!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And you\u2019re getting bias towards that. That\u2019s what we think is happening. We\u2019re looking for evidence of it. It certainly fits with what we think is one of the biggest challenges for children who grow up under really chronic stress. Which is they get into environments, like school, where they need to think, a lot, and inhibit action, a lot. And it\u2019s really, really hard for them. Especially when there\u2019s any distraction around, especially if anything\u2019s going on at home, which it often is, which is making them feel more anxious that day, is that they really are getting tipped toward act first, think later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the school context, the context we need for making a really good living, is a struggle because the brain, through eons of evolution, has mapped itself towards survival in a very different kind of environment. And we\u2019re learning ways to help those children rewire, right, and we\u2019re looking for evidence. The clearest evidence we ever see is a reduced brain volume, especially in the prefrontal lobes. That\u2019s been the, I mean, consistent, over and over and over and over again, our finding the prefrontal cortex really struggles to develop in the context of adversity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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