Prefrontal cortex

- brain's seat of judgement (pg 47 female brain)

- emotion and impulse-control system (pg 50 female brain)

- hormonal and serotonin changes can result in malfunction of prefrontal cortex during last two weeks of menstrual cycle in women and emotions can push more easily from the primitive parts of the brain (pg 47)

- still thin & immature by age of 12 for a girl ; so amygdala overwhelms with  emotions.

- sex hormones were causing brain cells to grow and sprout extensions in teenage brains .' These unfinished— unmyelinated—extension cords, most prominent in the connections from the emotion center of the amygdalato the emotional control center of the prefrontal cortex, need to be coated with a substance called myelin that allows for fast conduction before they can function reliably under stress. This may not happen until the late teens or early adult years. Without the fast connection to the prefrontal cortex, big downloads of emotional impulses often result in immediate, raw behaviors and circuit overload (pg 50 female brain)