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How to Counter Modern Life’s Assault on Your Prefrontal Cortex

A Yale psychiatrist explains the remedies for “frontal fatigue.”

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4 min readMay 19

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Your brain doesn’t much resemble an onion, but it does have layers.

The innermost layers and structures (sometimes called the “lizard brain”) are thought to have evolved first. These…

Markham Heid

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I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.

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