Andrew Huberman· PhD
the prefrontal cortex being largely a context evaluating and prediction machine is essentially looking at that landscape and predicting what would happen indeed how bad it would be if you were to jump off that bridge or jump off that cliff and then you feel that oh my goodness like what's wrong with me why would I think this but the fact that you think it even for a moment but you don't do it and the fact that you recognize that it's sort of a uh you know dangerous thought certainly a dangerous action again please don't engage in the action tells you that your prefrontal cortex is working properly again the prefrontal cortex is involved in suppressing certain types of behaviors