That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well -
developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.
If he learns that these chaotic feelings can be accepted and safely expressed, he will gradually
develop the frontal lobe capacity and the neural pathways to calm his «big» feelings without the tantrum.
To help train
those developing frontal lobes, Dr. Richardson recommends stressing to students that it is important and fun to be organized.
Not exact matches
In fact, the
frontal lobes continue
developing through at least the late teens, so you have plenty of time to help shape your child's personality and attitudes.
Most kids don't
develop these capacities until they are 5 - 6 years old — not coincidentally the age when the
frontal lobes start to mature (Eliot 2000).
«In addition,» Dr. Cruger says, «neuroscientific studies, including CT scans and MRI studies, have seen volumetric differences between typically
developing youngsters and children diagnosed with ADHD — not in those somatosensory regions, but in
frontal lobe regions noted to be essential for the inhibition of impulses.»
Focus on the Good While high school sweethearts typically meet, fall in love and dissolve before their brains are fully
developed — somewhere in their mid - to late 20s — I met Ben just as my brain's
frontal lobes were reaching maturity.
Bruce Miller of the University of California, San Francisco, has shown that even some adult patients who
develop a degeneration of their
frontal and temporal
lobes (called frontotemporal dementia) suddenly
develop artistic talents, possibly because they can now allocate all their attention to the parietal
lobes.
The scans revealed that men with ASD had differences in brain connections in the
frontal lobe, a part of the brain that is crucial to
developing language and social interaction skills.
Again, you can blame it on biology: The
frontal lobes of the brain — which deal with responsibility and risk calculation —
develop much more slowly in males than females, Dr. Legato says.
This is a survival mechanism that's been with us since long before our
frontal lobes developed.
Humans have
developed such efficient
frontal lobes due to selective pressures and they serve us well if we continue to work as a team and not a group think or as completely independent of the whole.
Lets go back to the cavemen days before we
developed the fully - functioning
frontal lobes in our brain that are responsible for problem solving, memory, judgement and impulse control, amongst other things.