Goldie Hawn tapped three of her grandkids to play voices in 'Brain Buddies,' a short educational film that teaches kids about ...

"The regions seem separate from each other, but when you map them out together, they all turn out to be part of the same circuit -- the 'amygdala-hippocampus-medial prefrontal cortex' circuit ...

It gets them ready for learning," she says of the kids who follow the ... they know what the amygdala does, and they know what the prefrontal cortex does. So they know that when you calm down ...

Experts call this an “amygdala hijack” – when the fight, flight, or freeze response overrides your brain’s prefrontal cortex ... inevitably do with small kids—I’d be left with one ...

That means the phrases you deliberately say out loud can become tiny daily workouts for your prefrontal cortex. The more reps ... pathways and dampens the amygdala’s threat response.

Experts call this an “amygdala hijack” – when the fight, flight, or freeze response overrides your brain’s prefrontal cortex ... inevitably do with small kids—I’d be left with one ...