Aileron: An aerodynamic panel at the rear of the wing that regulates banking.
Amygdalae: Two complex almond-shaped brain structures responsible for the release of stress hormones.
Attunement: Communication by the imaginary or the physical matching of another’s activity, body language, facial expression, and prosody.
Avoidant Attachment: Characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation, and avoidance of social interaction.
Benzodiazepines: A class of sedative medication.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): An approach that seeks to reduce anxiety by replacing irrational or unrealistic thoughts with rational ones.
Dihedral: The upward angle at which the wing is attached to the fuselage.
Dysregulate: Impairment of a physiological regulatory mechanism.
Executive Function: High-level cognition; makes assessments, builds plans, and commits to actions.
Fuselage: The central body of the aircraft to which the wings and tail are attached.
Homeostasis: A state of internal equilibrium.
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Located in the frontal lobes, it is involved in the cognitive process of decision making.
Oxytocin: An anti-stress neuropeptide that inhibits stress hormone release.
Phobia: A disorder in which emotion is not well-regulated, causing fear of emotional overwhelm, or fear disproportional to risk.
Prefrontal Cortex: The region of the brain responsible for Executive Function; the CEO of the brain.
Processing: That which takes place below consciousness.
Psychic Equivalence: When what is in the mind or imagination and what is real are experienced as the same.
Reflective Function: The ability to critique and correct one’s own mental processes, as well as to mentally simulate the mind of another person.
Satisfices: A term that suggests less-than-absolute certainty suffices and satisfies.
Synapses; Synaptic: The point at which electrical or chemical connections take place in the brain.
Venous Thromboembolism (VTE): The blocking of blood flow in a vein.