Glucocorticoids impair frontal cortex function, including judgment, impulse control, executive function, long-term planning, and strategizing.

“virtually every bad thing cellularly that stress include corticoids doing the hippocampus there turning out to do the frontal cortex as well and what does that begin to explain in this entire world of why it is during moments of extreme emotional arousal especially aversive ones why we make terrible terrible decisions that seem brilliant at the time and you spend the rest of your life regretting it because impulse control your amygdala overpowers your frontal cortex at those times”