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The frontal lobe holds plans and restrains impulses

Its forward portion supports foresight, working memory and control over automatic urges The prefrontal cortex is densely connected to sensory, motor and emotional regions. It keeps goals active while distractions arrive and weighs consequences before an action. This region matures later than most of the brain, with connections still being refined into the twenties. It sits in Mondo's human body collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its forward portion supports foresight, working memory and control over automatic urges. The figure is taken from NIMH, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a human body fact?: Yes. It sits on the Human Body shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.