Mindsight and Brainstorm author and child psychiatrist Daniel Siegel describes the brain process that leads to anger exploding—and the executive brain functions that can be cultivated in both adults and children in order to avoid ”flipping your lid”. Flipping your lid describes how higher cortical functions and especially executive functioning go offline or become largely inaccessible when the stress and threat response has been activated. Skills of self-regulation (and ultimately of co-regulation as well) become critical for the learning brain to be receptive.
Siegel, D. https://heartmindonline.org/resources/daniel-siegel-flipping-your-lid