The dorsal peduncular cortex and dorsal tegmental nucleus in the prefrontal cortex send connections to the dorsal medial hypothalamus, which controls cardinal features of the stress response.

“in this study what they were able to do was to identify these two particular regions which I'll just call them dpdt for short so instead of saying dorsal peduncular cortex and dorsal tat tecta so just say DP dtt this is this area of the prefrontal cortex okay don't let these acronyms and names scare you these are just names of a little sub region within the prefrontal cortex send connections little wires that we call axons to a area of the brain called the dorsal medial hypothalamus”