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The brain's bouncer, deciding which impulses are cool enough to get in.
means A psychological or neural restraint that holds back an impulse, action, or thought before it happens.
from From Latin inhibere, 'to hold in, restrain, keep back' — built from in- ('in') plus habere ('to hold'), the same habere that gives us 'habit' and 'exhibit.' Latin inhibitio originally had a legal flavor, meaning a formal prohibition or restraining order. English borrowed it in that same forbidding sense before psychology got hold of it and turned it inward, making 'inhibition' less about courts forbidding citizens and more about the mind forbidding itself.
- neural basis
- GABA neurotransmitter puts the brakes on neurons
- alcohol effect
- doesn't loosen you, just mutes your internal critic
- enzyme sense
- also means blocking a reaction, no psychology required
- prefrontal cortex
- last brain region to mature, hence teenage recklessness